{"id":75458,"date":"2015-11-22T20:41:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T19:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=75458"},"modified":"2015-11-22T22:45:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T21:45:19","slug":"impressive-novak-makes-history-with-fourth-successive-season-ending-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/impressive-novak-makes-history-with-fourth-successive-season-ending-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Novak makes history with fourth straight season-ending crown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75484\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/atpfinals2015_11.jpg\" alt=\"Nole zavr\u0161io sezonu iz snova trijumfom u Londonu!\" width=\"590\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/atpfinals2015_11.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/atpfinals2015_11-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/atpfinals2015_11-267x171.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nole\u2019s dominance in London continues\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak&#8217;s already brilliant season took on another dimension on Sunday when the world no.1 became the first man in history to capture four successive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barclaysatpworldtourfinals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barclays ATP World Tour Finals <\/a>singles titles by dismissing Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4 in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic beat the Swiss for a career-high 11th title of the year, and 59th singles trophy overall. The Serbian star ends the remarkable season with an 82-6 match record.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, Nole tied his ATP head-to-head series with Federer to 22 wins apiece.\u00a0The showdown was his 15th consecutive final of the year, which is an Open Era record.<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u00a0earned the first break of the opening set to go 2-1 ahead and then consolidated it for 3-1 lead. He broke for the second time in the ninth game taking a one-set advantage after 39 minutes of play. The top seed\u00a0applied pressure again in the 10th game of the second set. The Swiss had saved one match point before double-faulting on the second.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Belgrade native won 84% of second serve points and saved both break points he faced during the one hour, 20-minute clash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m very proud to have these achievements with my team,&#8221; <\/strong>said Novak\u00a0during the trophy ceremony.<strong> &#8220;Without their support and my family, I wouldn&#8217;t be where I am. It&#8217;s been a long season, but the best of my life.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>I am enjoying every moment on the court, I\u00a0cherish every moment after dreaming of it as a kid. Thank you everyone for making this year so special.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Congratulations to Roger, it was another epic match.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Match statistics<\/u>: aces (5-6), double faults (0-2), winners (13-19), unforced errors (14-31), total points won (62-53).<\/p>\n<p>En-route to the final, Nole beat Kei Nishikori, Tomas Berdych and Rafael Nadal. He also won the title at the prestigious season-ending tournament in 2008 (d. Davydenko), 2012 (d. Federer), 2013 (d. Nadal) and 2014 (Federer withdrew ahead of final due to a back injury).<\/p>\n<p>The victory put Novak into a second place tie with Ivan Lendl and and Pete Sampras with five Tour Finals wins, one behind Federer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak has clinched the year-end no.1 ATP Ranking for a fourth time. He\u00a0previously finished at the top in 2011, 2012 and 2014, and is the sixth player to finish year-end no.1 on four or more occasions, following in the footsteps of Pete Sampras (6), Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer (5), Ivan Lendl and John McEnroe (4).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"null\">Right after the final, Nole shared some thoughts on what has been an amazing year in live chat with fans on his Facebook Page. He thanked his fans on a tremendous support and answered a couple of questions. Enjoy the video!<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"1\" data-href=\"\/djokovic.official\/videos\/vb.161367337249459\/1033800073339510\/?type=3\"><\/div>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/djokovic.official\/\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> on Sunday, November 22, 2015<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak completed dream season capturing a career-high 11th title of the year and fifth ATP World Tour Finals trophy (b.Federer 6-3, 6-4) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012496,101011061,101010437,101012193,101012498],"class_list":["post-75458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-barclays-atp-world-tour-finals-2015-en","tag-champion-en","tag-final-en","tag-london-en","tag-the-o2-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75458"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75547,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458\/revisions\/75547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}