Prior to claiming the men’s singles title at the Australian Open on Sunday, Novak Djokovic spent two weeks in Melbourne that were marked by drama.
Only eight players in the long history of men’s tennis have won a total of ten or more major titles. Novak Djokovic, of course, is one of them. On Sunday, in Melbourne, at the Australian Open, he won his twenty-second major—his tenth on, Rod Laver Arena, the main show court in Melbourne Park. That victory—6–3, 7–6, 7–6, over Stefanos Tsitsipas—ties him with Rafael Nadal for the most Grand Slam wins by any player in the men’s game.
There was little dazzle to Djokovic’s straight-set win over Tsitsipas, which, among other things, raised his ranking to, once again, No. 1 in the world. A Djokovic triumph, more often than not, is a methodical grind, an exercise in inevitability. That’s what Tsitsipas endured. The tone of the match was set in its very first minutes.
What tension there was to the match occurred in the tiebreaks that ended the second and third sets. In both of them, Djokovic established early leads but tightened up—the crowd support for Tsitsipas from Melbourne’s sizable Greek community seemed to get to him, especially in that first tiebreak—and let Tsitsipas back in. That Djokovic went on to win both tiebreaks had mostly to do with forehand errors from Tsitsipas.
Djokovic’s two weeks in Melbourne were not without drama, or melodrama. He clutched his left hamstring in a tune-up match before the Australian Open, and, during much of his run to the championship in Melbourne, he played with a taped thigh, which he continued to rub and stretch during matches.
Then, late last week, a video emerged of Djokovic’s father, Srdjan, celebrating a quarterfinal Djokovic victory Wednesday night with fans on the Australian Open grounds. Along with fans draped in Serbian flags were those holding Russian flags, and a man wearing a T-shirt with
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