We definitely underestimate Djokovic’s achievements

The tennis season finished with the ATP Finals. The Davis Cup is coming up, but it is a team event, so it does not influence the players’ world ratings and personal achievements. Therefore, we can sum up the results.

Novak Djokovic received a triumphant victory again. This does not come as a big surprise to tennis viewers who are watching this kind of sport only superficially by switching on the games at the end of the biggest tournaments. It is not surprising, since Djokovic plays more frequently in the finals and wins them more often than any other tennis player. However, experts and fans who are into tennis are expecting the Serbian tennis player to start losing and getting down the top rating. It seemed that the scandal related to COVID-19 and several missed tournaments were supposed to drag Djokovic down but he returned to his positions fast.

Actually, we have got used to Djokovic’s dominant position in men’s tennis so much that we cannot even fully comprehend his contribution over the course of time. We would like to pay attention to it in our article.

Novak overplays the new “Golden generation” of young tennis players

Djokovic’s professional career started in 2003 and ranked number one in the world’s best tennis players’ rating in 2011. His whole career is marked by competing with the other two world tennis legends, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. For more than 10 years everyone was waiting for a new young player to come and defeat “The Big Three.” However, no one has managed to do this yet. Eventually, the age took over Nadal and Federer, but Djokovic still remains on the top.

Currently, Alcaraz, Sinner, and Rune are modern aspired tennis players as earlier were Zverev, Tsitsipas, and Medvedev. Yet, Djokovic is still above them all. Djokovic competed against Sinner and Alcaraz during the play-off stage. Nevertheless, these young talented players managed to win only 11 games in total.

Without any doubts, this new set of tennis players is quite strong and each player can show really high results competing against the Serb and even defeat him from time to time. For example, Sinner managed to do it in the group of the ATP Finals. Yet, when it comes to winning in the whole tournament or season, any player is nowhere near Djokovic.

On top of that, Novak is showing no signs of going down the rating. It is highly probable that the next year or several years we might expect Djokovic to compete against everybody. It is also likely that the odds that Novak wins will be lower than the odds on somebody else winning the big tournament.  You can read the overview of the sportsbook which accepts bets on tennis at Betway online sports betting in South Africa

Djokovic made a historic season

Let us acknowledge all Djokovic’s major achievements throughout this year. He has already managed to set and update some of his records. So, his key achievements of 2023 are listed below:

• Participated in 12 tournaments and won 7 of them. No one can boast having such results in the tournament;
• Lost only 6 out of 61 matches. This is the best percentage of victories in the tournament. By the way, it has been only the third time when he managed to win in more than 90% of the matches;
• Won 3 Grand Slam tournaments and ended up in the finals of the fourth one;
• Became the Grand Slam winner for the 24th time and updated his record;
• Won the seventh ATP Finals and became a single record holder (Federer has 6 victories under his belt);
• Resumed his primacy in the rating and became the first player of all time who has been ranked number one for 400 weeks in total;
• Finished the year as the rating leader for the 8th time over the course of his career;
• Is 2000 points ahead of the player who comes second in the rating;
• Won 17 out 21 matches against players form top-ten;
• Won 98singles titles.

To conclude, let us just conjure up that Djokovic can even surpass himself in the near future. We would hazard a guess that his main aim is to win the Olympic Games. He will have such a chance in Paris in 2024. In addition, it is an attractive objective to break the record of Jimmy Connors, who won 109 tournaments during his career. Last but not least, Novak intends on increasing the number of won Grand Slam tournaments.