23! 23 times Novak Djokovic!
The Serb added another chapter to the history of the tennis world on Sunday, when he won the 23rd Grand Slam tournament in his career at Roland Garros. The tennis player beat Casper Rudd in the final (7-6 6-3 7-5) and became the sportsman with the most victories in his career.
In the brick dust in Paris, Knoll was the main favourite, after the King of Clay, Rafa Nadal, withdrew due to injury. Carlos Alcaraz seemed the only opponent with arguments to prevent the 36-year-old from winning for the third time in France.
The young Spaniard fell in the semi-finals and Casper Ruud was the last hurdle that separated Djokovic from more history. By the way, you excelled par excellence.
Ruud played a great first set, even had a break advantage, but succumbed to a stunning tiebreaker by Novak, one more. The title was in full swing, after a first fight that lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes.
In the remaining two parts, the break of serve in each of them was enough for Djokovic to secure the party in the capital of Galicia, in the Grand Slam of the Serbs this season, after winning the Australian Open.
Djokovic thus became the male tennis player with the most titles won, ahead of Nadal’s 22 and Roger Federer’s 20. But the numbers don’t stop there.
Noll will again be the number one in the world, “stealing” this position from Alcaraz, who is also the first athlete to win all the Grand Slam tournaments at least three times and the oldest to triumph at Roland Garros, at the age of 36 years and 20 days.
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