Many take it for granted that Novak Djokovic is the best tennis player in history on a hard court, but there is a statistic that makes it clear that, at least for the moment, he is the second. This is the classification of the players with the most championships won on said surface, where the Serbian appears surpassed only by a tennis player who is none other than one of his main generational rivals: Roger Federer.
The “Swiss Express” retired last year with a total of 71 titles won on hard courts, four more than the Serbian at the moment. After obtaining his tenth Australian Open, ‘Nole’ reached 67 championships in his record on his favorite surface.
The way things are, it seems like a matter of time before Djokovic steals a new record from Roger Federer. Those four championships can be achieved by him this season on the tour prior to the US Open or in the last events of the season.
The following on the list have been left far behind. The third and last place on the podium is occupied by the American Andre Agassi with 46 awards, right now 21 less than ‘Nole’ Further down the ranking come Americans Jimmy Connors (43) and Pete Sampras (36), followed by British Andy Murray (34).
You have to remember that before his hip injury, Murray was terrific, so good that he got into the fight with the Big-3. This is how a classification is going that is about to fall into the hands of Novak Djokovic, for a change.
Nole won his tenth title at the Australian Open
Novak Djokovic said that it’s a matter of huge ‘pride’ and ‘satisfaction’ to win his tenth title at the Australian Open. “Yeah, just a huge pride and satisfaction that I feel at the moment.
Of course, when I went into my box, I just think emotionally collapsed there and teared up, especially my mother and my brother, when I gave them a hug because up to that moment, I was not allowing myself to, I guess, be distracted with things off the court or whatever was happening in dealing with an injury, things happening off the court, as well, that could easily have been a big disturbance to my focus, to my game.
It required enormous mental energy really to stay present, to stay focused, to take things day by day, and really see how far I can go,” he said.
