Novak Djokovic closes in on eclipsing Serena Williams run as Serbian tennis ace admits ‘reduction’ at equaling mammoth Federer document

Tennis famous person Novak Djokovic has matched a exceptional feat achieved solely by rival Roger Federer within the males’s recreation – and he’s concentrating on Serena Williams and a number of other girls’s data after topping the ATP rankings for 310 weeks.

Only a week after profitable his 18th Grand Slam by beating Russian Daniil Medvedev to retain his Australian Open crown, the sporting legend will break Federer’s document for the longest time as males’s primary subsequent Monday and desires to scale new heights.

After changing into the only real holder of the document within the males’s recreation, Djokovic will probably be simply eight weeks shy of catching up with girls’s nice Serena Williams’ 319 weeks in high spot.

The Serb champion revealed his “reduction” and admitted that he’ll now tweak his strategy as he targets new data past the astonishing run of consistency on the summit of the male sport.

Because the creation of the ATP rating in 1973, Novak Djokovic is the one male participant who hasn't misplaced a single level in a yr, from Shanghai SF in 2014 to spherical robin matches at ATP Finals in 2015.

Truly, he doesn't want a frozen rating to not lose any factors.#Djokovic pic.twitter.com/nljfbr22UN

— Dan Tennis (@DanTennis1) January 5, 2021

“If you find yourself going for primary rating, you form of should be enjoying your entire season and you need to be enjoying nicely, you need to play all of the tournaments,” the 18-time Grand Slam king defined.

“Now, after attaining the historic primary for the longest weeks at primary, it’s going to be a reduction for me as a result of I’m going to focus all my consideration on Slams, largely.

“My objectives will adapt and shift a little bit bit, which implies that I must regulate additionally my calendar – not should, however I’ll have a possibility to do this which, as a father and a husband, I’m actually trying ahead to.”

Novak #Djokovic, the present world No.1 in ATP rating, has reached the document holder of whole weeks number one with Roger #Federer

Federer🇨🇭310
Djokovic 🇷🇸 310
Sampras 🇺🇸 286

— Luca Fiorino (@FiorinoLuca) March 1, 2021

Whereas Djokovic wanted lower than ten years to match Federer’s document, Williams took round 15 years to rack up as many weeks on the high of the rankings.

Djokovic is sort of sure to interrupt surpass her run in Might, and he appears to be like prone to equal Federer and Nadal’s Grand Slam haul of 20 main titles within the subsequent yr or two, with each of his main rivals struggling damage issues and falling in need of their regular imperious kind at latest tournaments.

His probabilities of beating two extra of the best champions ever to play tennis is much less sure: German Steffi Graf held the highest spot for 377 weeks, with Martina Navratilova reaching 332 weeks.

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