He won his first ATP tournament in the Dutch city of Amersfoort, from which his family, later on, bought the ATP licence for holding Serbia open tournament in Belgrade. Immediately after that Novak took another title in Metz. This allowed him to become the youngest player in the top 20.
Novak Djokovic also played his first ever Grand Slam quarterfinal that year at Roland Garros. He finished the season ranked 16th in the world.
In the middle of the year he started working with tennis coach Marian Vajda from Slovakia.
