Novak Djokovic celebrates after profitable the final towards Norway’s Casper Ruud within the French Open final on June 11, 2023.
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Novak Djokovic received his males’s-record 23rd Grand Slam title on Sunday (June 11) with a 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-5 victory over Casper Ruud within the French Open final.
Djokovic, a 36-year-old from Serbia, broke a tie with rival Rafael Nadal for probably the most main singles trophies within the historical past of males’s tennis, which dates to the 1800s. Only Margaret Court holds extra Grand Slams titles in singles tennis all-time (males’s and girls’s), with 24.
Nadal, a 14-time champion at Roland Garros, missed this 12 months’s event on account of harm.
This victory goes alongside the French Open titles earned by Djokovic in 2016 and 2021, making him the one man with at the very least three from every main occasion. Since amassing his very first Slam trophy on the 2008 Australian Open, he has accrued a complete of 10 there, seven at Wimbledon and three on the U.S. Open.
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Also value noting: Djokovic is once more midway to a calendar-year Grand Slam — profitable all 4 majors in a single season — one thing no man has achieved since Rod Laver in 1969. Djokovic got here near pulling off that feat in 2021, when he received the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon and made all of it the best way to the title match on the U.S. Open earlier than shedding to Daniil Medvedev.
Djokovic will resume that monumental pursuit at Wimbledon, which begins on the grass of the All England Club on July 3.
