{"id":151333,"date":"2021-12-06T13:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=151333"},"modified":"2022-01-31T18:59:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:59:21","slug":"2021-in-review-simply-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/2021-in-review-simply-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 in review: Simply the Best!"},"content":{"rendered":"

2021 was another year of dominance for Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old Serbian star enjoyed a remarkable 12 months, winning five titles – including three Grand Slam trophies (Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon), one ATP Masters 1000 crown (Rolex Paris Masters), and an ATP 250 tournament in his hometown, the Belgrade Open. He was also a finalist at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Rome and at the US Open.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In one of his greatest seasons, Nole achieved many impressive milestones and gained respect for his record-breaking achievements.<\/p>\n

Djokovic continued to build upon his extraordinary legacy at Melbourne Park, becoming the AO champion for an unprecedented ninth time.<\/p>\n

By lifting the Coupe des Mousquetaires, Novak became the first man in the Open Era, and only the third in history, to win every major title at least twice.<\/p>\n

Winning the 2021 Wimbledon Championships, Djokovic clinched his 20th career Grand Slam title, tying Roger Federer\u2019s and Rafael Nadal\u2019s all-time record. He also became the first man since Rod Laver (1969) to win the first three Grand Slams of the season.<\/p>\n

At the Paris Masters he won a record-breaking 37th Masters 1000 trophy and clinched a historic seventh year-end no.1 finish, surpassing his childhood idol and role model Pete Sampras for most year-end no.1 finishes in ATP rankings history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today Novak marks a total of 350 weeks at the summit of men’s professional tennis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can download Nole 2022 February desktop calendar here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photos: Profimedia (cover), NovakBible<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novak completed one of the greatest seasons on the ATP Tour, winning three Grand Slam trophies and clinching a historic seventh year-end no.1 finish. Djokovic also captured his 20th career Grand Slam title, tying Roger Federer\u2019s and Rafael Nadal\u2019s all-time record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":151328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151333"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151906,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151333\/revisions\/151906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}