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- Djokovic Extends 'Big Titles' Lead With Rome Victory.
- Poll: How many Slams will Alcaraz win in 2022?
- Nadal better retire or face outright humiliation @ 2022 Roland Garros and beyond.
- 2022 Roland Garros win for Djokovic will be the 'perfect' revenge for Nadal winning 2022 AO? Do you see the similarities? No, you don't!!!!!!!!!
- Five players who have won 1000 or more matches @ ATP Masters. How many can you name? One?
- Career Golden Masters. The achievement of winning all of the active ATP Masters titles over the course of a player's career. Wonder who that could be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Medvedev On Return In Geneva: 'I Feel Great'. World No. 2 pursuing first title of the season.
- Novak Djokovic becomes fifth player to reach 1,000 match wins.
- It's on ! Roland-Garros 2022 is about to start ! (16 may - 5 June). Are you ready?
- Djokovic: 'I Couldn't Ask For A Better Week'
05/15/2022
Djokovic Extends 'Big Titles' Lead With Rome Victory.
Novak Djokovic’s first title of the season, which he claimed Sunday in Rome, was big in more ways than one.
The World No. 1 showed he is back to top form by defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-0, 7-6(5) to triumph at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, and also extended his lead in the ‘Big Titles’ race. The Serbian now has 63 of them, putting him five clear of Rafael Nadal (58) and nine ahead of Roger Federer (54). A 'Big Title' is a trophy at a Grand Slam championship, the Nitto ATP Finals, an ATP Masters 1000 tournament or an Olympic singles gold medal.
The 34-year-old has now earned at least one ‘Big Title’ in 11 of the past 12 years. He has also lifted at least one tour-level trophy in 17 consecutive seasons. With his sixth crown in Rome, Djokovic extended his record number of ATP Masters 1000 trophies to 38, putting him two in front of Nadal.
Djokovic still owns the best 'Big Titles' win-rate at one title won per 3.3 events played (63/205), while Nadal is second in the category, winning one for every 3.5 tournaments played at this level (58/201). Only Roger Federer (4.4, 54/240) and Pete Sampras (4.9, 30/147) have claimed a 'Big Title' at a rate of greater than once per five events played.
Current and Former Champions' Big Titles Won (Records Since 1990)
| Player | Grand Slams | Nitto ATP Finals | 1000s | Total^ (Avg) |
| Novak Djokovic | 20/65 | 5/14 | 38/122 | 63/205 (3.3) |
| Rafael Nadal | 21/63 | 0/10 | 36/126 | 58/201 (3.5) |
| Roger Federer | 20/80 | 6/17 | 28/138 | 54/240 (4.4) |
| Pete Sampras | 14/52 | 5/11 | 11/83 | 30/147 (4.9) |
| Andre Agassi | 8/61 | 1/13 | 17/90 | 27/164 (6.1) |
| Andy Murray | 3/53 | 1/8 | 14/106 | 20/170 (8.5) |
| Boris Becker* | 2/26 | 2/6 | 5/51 | 9/84 (9.3) |
| Thomas Muster | 1/29 | 0/4 | 8/53 | 9/87 (9.7) |
| Stefan Edberg** | 3/28 | 0/4 | 4/45 | 7/79 (11.3) |
| Gustavo Kuerten | 3/33 | 1/3 | 5/67 | 9/105 (11.6) |
| Jim Courier | 4/38 | 0/4 | 5/71 | 9/114 (12.6) |
| Marcelo Rios | 0/26 | 0/1 | 5/56 | 5/84 (16.8) |
| Marat Safin | 2/41 | 0/3 | 5/87 | 7/133 (19) |
| Michael Chang*** | 0/50 | 0/6 | 7/86 | 7/144 (20.6) |
| Andy Roddick | 1/46 | 0/6 | 5/75 | 6/129 (22.5) |
^ Includes Olympic Games gold medals and tournament participations
* Becker's four other Grand Slam titles came before 1990.
** Edberg's three other Grand Slam titles came before 1990.
*** Chang's one Grand Slam title came before 1990
https://www.atptour.com/en/news/djokovic-rome-2022-big-titles
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Nadal better retire or face outright humiliation @ 2022 Roland Garros and beyond.
Forget competing @ 2022 Roland Garros, Nadal cannot even be an active ATP player without facing certain disgrace and embarrassment - forget catastrophic injury.
It's freaking over.
If he doesn't recognize it he WILL pay for it LONG after he is done with tennis.
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2022 Roland Garros win for Djokovic will be the 'perfect' revenge for Nadal winning 2022 AO? Do you see the similarities? No, you don't!!!!!!!!!
Djokovic couldn't play @ 2022 AO and Nadal won it tying Djokovic's record of two Career Slams.
Nadal may (will?) not play (even if he does, it's as good as not playing) 2022 Roland Garros and Djokovic will(?) win it to clinch his THIRD Career Slam - forget tying No. 22.
That's sufficient blatant revenge for you????????? Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Five players who have won 1000 or more matches @ ATP Masters. How many can you name? One?
Connors.
Lendl.
Federer.
Nadal.
Djokovic.
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Medvedev On Return In Geneva: 'I Feel Great'. World No. 2 pursuing first title of the season.
Daniil Medvedev returns to action this week at the Gonet Geneva Open for his first competition of the clay-court season. The World No. 2 is ready to compete following a “small procedure” to repair a “small hernia” after Miami.
“I feel great. [I] managed to get around I would say two weeks of good practice and one week of full practice,” Medvedev said. “[I] decided that it’s going to be good to prepare [for the] French Open, to get some matches here. Some matches, hopefully more than one.”
Medvedev will be making his debut in Geneva, where he will play former Top 10 star Richard Gasquet or Australian John Millman in his opening match. The 26-year-old, who has posted several videos of himself training in recent weeks, is hoping to get off to a quick start on his return.
This will be Medvedev’s first appearance on clay since losing in last year’s Roland Garros quarter-finals against Stefanos Tsitsipas, and he is hoping to adjust to the surface quickly. “It’s never been easy for me on clay courts to straightaway start good,” Medvedev said.
The 13-time tour-level champion will pursue his first title of the year in Switzerland and his maiden crown on clay. He will have to overcome a tough field, which includes potential quarter-final opponent Dominic Thiem, defending champion Casper Ruud and third seed Denis Shapovalov.
Most importantly, Medvedev is feeling well leading into his first tournament in six weeks.
“I’m feeling good,” Medvedev said. “Physically, I’m feeling ready.”
https://www.atptour.com/en/news/medvedev-geneva-2022-preview
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Novak Djokovic becomes fifth player to reach 1,000 match wins.
Viktor Troicki first encountered Novak Djokovic on a tennis court. He recalled blanking Djokovic 9-0 in an under-10 event in Belgrade.
Troicki’s favourite memory of his close friend also came on court, about 15 years later in the pro ranks. Djokovic, in the infancy of a career-altering season, turned the tables by dispatching his compatriot 6-0, 6-1 in Indian Wells in 2011. The serenity of the California desert contrasted with NATO bombs Djokovic and his family evaded in the Serbian capital in 1999.
“He kicked my ass, and at the net I was furious,” Troicki, now 11 months into retirement, told ATPTour.com. “I even broke my racquet into two pieces. I was coming up to the net to congratulate him. He smiled and told me, ‘Great match, you played very well.’ He was obviously joking. He made me smile and laugh about it, and it was something good friends do.
“We played a lot of matches, and I didn’t have too much success against him,” Troicki chuckled.
But Troicki isn’t alone in experiencing defeat at the hands of the 37-time ATP Masters 1000 champion, who today becomes just the fifth man in the Open Era to reach 1,000 match wins.
When asked by ATPTour.com for his initial thoughts on Djokovic achieving the extremely rare milestone, colourful commentator Robbie Koenig began with, “No-vakking — if you can start with that word — way!”
“It’s mind boggling what he has done, and the type of opposition he has had to do it against, in the (Roger) Federer-(Rafael) Nadal era,” continued the five-time ATP Tour doubles winner from South Africa.
It added to Djokovic’s extensive, distinguished list of records, such as, from 2015-2016, becoming the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to claim four consecutive majors and the first in the Open Era to bag each of the majors at least twice.
If not keeping track, those feats completed at the French Open marked his 730th and 961st wins.
No man has held the No. 1 Pepperstone ATP Ranking longer (369 weeks) or completed the Career Golden Masters (winning all nine Masters 1000 tournaments), which, for good measure, he has done twice. That includes winning the ‘Sunshine Double’ (capturing Indian Wells and Miami in the same year) four times. And let’s not forget his five titles at the Nitto ATP Finals.
Djokovic joined fellow GOAT candidates Federer and Nadal in tallying 1,000 victories. But before the emergence of the all-conquering Big Three, it hadn’t been done in the men’s game since Ivan Lendl in 1992. Jimmy Connors, a rival of Lendl’s, became the founding and only other member of the select club in 1984.
That Djokovic sits in the same class as Connors and Lendl is appropriate. Connors possessed a two-handed backhand and returns lauded by different generations, with Djokovic ascending to the same lofty heights.
In 2018 at the Nitto ATP Finals, John Isner, second only to Ivo Karlovic in career aces, rated Djokovic as the “No. 1 and No. 2 and No. 3” top returners he has ever played.
More than one shot is needed to enter the GOAT conversation, but a contender for Djokovic’s trademark stroke would be his backhand down the line on the backfoot — either during a baseline exchange or as a passing shot.
Indeed, the backhand drew special praise from Federer on the eve of their Wimbledon thriller in 2019.
“If I think of Novak, one thing that jumps out at me, is his jump back and to the left,” said Federer, edged out in five sets two days later. “How he's able to defend on that side, which I think has won him numerous matches and trophies. He does that better than anybody.”
https://www.atptour.com/en/news/novak-djokovic-journey-to-1000-wins
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Djokovic: 'I Couldn't Ask For A Better Week'
Serbian lifted a record-extending 38th ATP Masters 1000 trophy in Rome
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic revealed that he is delighted with where his game is after he captured a record-extending 38th ATP Masters 1000 crown on Sunday at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia.
The Serbian, who beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final, did not drop a set en route to his sixth title in Rome and earned his 1000th match win along the way.
“I couldn't ask for a better week really,” Djokovic said in his post-match press conference. “[I] played a perfect set today. Didn't drop a set the whole tournament. I trusted the process really when I started training on clay...
“I usually peak here in Rome. I've had six titles but also had a lot of finals and semi-finals. Always a really good week of tennis with a lot of matches, and competitiveness on the court. Anything that I was really looking for here in Rome I got.”
The 34-year-old’s victory in the Italian capital has marked an impressive turnaround for Djokovic, who lost to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in his opening match in Monte Carlo just a month ago.
Despite his struggles at the start of the European clay swing, the top seed said that while he 'felt rusty', he never panicked and believed he would regain his best level providing that he played matches.
“I think physically I really felt really good from Madrid onwards,” Djokovic added when discussing his run to the semi-finals in Spain. “Already there I felt like the physical issues that I was facing in Monte Carlo and Serbia were behind me. I put in a lot of fitness hours between Serbia and Madrid.”
Pleased with his progress, Djokovic will now turn his attention to Roland Garros, where he will pursue the title and draw level with Rafael Nadal on 21 Grand Slam crowns.
“I could not ask for a better lead-up to Roland Garros really,” Djokovic said. “Serbian Open finals, really working my way through the tournament physically. Then Madrid, better performances, but still maybe not as sharp in those decisive moments. And here everything kind of came together and clicked.
“I'm going to Paris with confidence and good feelings about my chances there.”
https://www.atptour.com/en/news/djokovic-rome-2022-reaction-sunday
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Championship point: Swiatek vs Jabeur 2022 Rome Masters.
2️⃣8️⃣ wins and counting for @iga_swiatek pic.twitter.com/ASNU8x5qkF
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) May 15, 2022
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Needle movement for Djokovic after 2022 Rome Masters win.
| # | Career Titles |
|---|---|
| 109 |  Jimmy Connors |
| 103 |  Roger Federer |
| 94 |  Ivan Lendl |
| 91 |  Rafael Nadal |
| 87 |  Novak Djokovic |
| 77 | John McEnroe |
| 72 |  Rod Laver |
| 66 |  Björn Borg |
| 64 |  Ilie Năstase |
| Pete Sampras |
H2H against Nadal: 30- 28 Djokovic.
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