Turin: Jannik Sinner recorded his first win over top-ranked Novak Djokovic, delighting a raucous home crowd at the ATP Finals. Sinner triumphed 7-5, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (2) in a match spanning more than three hours on Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. It was the 22-year-old Sinner’s first win in their four head-to-head meetings….
Turin: Novak Djokovic patted his chest, crouched down, placed his right hand on the court and looked inward. It was clearly a moment to cherish for the 24-time Grand Slam champion after securing the year-end No. 1 ranking for a record-extending eighth time. Djokovic needed only one match win at the ATP Finals 2023…
The 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic will enter the ATP Final 2023 event in Turin with an eye on breaking another record. This season, the Serbian equalled Rafael Nadal’s all-time record of 22 men’s major singles titles at the Australian Open before blowing past it with victories at Roland Garros and the US Open….
New York: Halfway through a second set that lasted 1 hour, 44 minutes, a test of tenacity as much as talent amid a US Open 2023 final as exhausting as it was exhilarating, Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev engaged each other in a 32-stroke point. It was among many such elongated exchanges between two…
New York: Ben Shelton is still just 20, still new to this whole professional tennis thing. He is equipped with a tremendously good serve, but don’t think he can’t come through in other ways when it matters the most. On a muggy night in which, yes, he hit 14 aces but also hit 11…
New York: Novak Djokovic did not encounter any of the sort of trouble he did in his previous match, eliminating qualifier Borna Gojo 6-2, 7-5, 6-4 on Sunday night to reach the US Open 2023 quarterfinals. Djokovic — who has won three of his men’s record 23 Grand Slam titles at Flushing Meadows — needed…
New York: Everyone should know by now to never count out Novak Djokovic. No matter how big a deficit he faces. No matter how poorly he might be playing. And so it made sense that Djokovic would manage to come all the way back from a two-set deficit to beat Laslo Djere 4-6, 4-6, 6-1,…
New York: Novak Djokovic is back at the US Open 2023 and will now be back at No. 1 in the rankings. Djokovic made a winning return after missing the tournament last year, rolling to a 6-0, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Alexandre Muller on Monday night. The 23-time Grand Slam champion had to wait through…
Novak Djokovic outlasted Carlos Alcaraz in a thrilling rematch of their Wimbledon final, winning 5-7, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4) on Sunday to take the Western & Southern Open. In a match that lasted 3 hours, 49 minutes, the longest best-of-three sets final in ATP Tour history (since 1990), the No. 2-seeded Djokovic avenged his loss…