Novak Djokovic gained his males’s-record twenty third Grand Slam title on Sunday (June 11) with a 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-5 victory over Casper Ruud within the French Open remaining.
Djokovic, a 36-year-old from Serbia, broke a tie with rival Rafael Nadal for probably the most main singles trophies within the historical past of males’s tennis, which dates to the 1800s. Only Margaret Court holds extra Grand Slams titles in singles tennis all-time (males’s and ladies’s), with 24.
Nadal, a 14-time champion at Roland Garros, missed this year’s tournament resulting from harm.
This victory goes alongside the French Open titles earned by Djokovic in 2016 and 2021, making him the one man with at the very least three from every main occasion. Since gathering his very first Slam trophy on the 2008 Australian Open, he has collected a complete of 10 there, seven at Wimbledon and three on the U.S. Open.
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Also price noting: Djokovic is once more midway to a calendar-year Grand Slam — profitable all 4 majors in a single season — one thing no man has achieved since Rod Laver in 1969. Djokovic got here near pulling off that feat in 2021, when he gained the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon and made all of it the way in which to the title match on the U.S. Open earlier than dropping to Daniil Medvedev.
Djokovic will resume that monumental pursuit at Wimbledon, which begins on the grass of the All England Club on July 3.