Novak Djokovic arrived in Geneva with 99 titles, 37 years, a season and a half of drought – Olympico on the margin – in the ATP circuit and certain doubts in his sports becoming, without victories about clay in what was going for the season in this 2025.
Days after his landing at the International Airport of the Helvetic City to play, for the second time, this event of category 250 where he has been able competition.
Novak Djokovic points to the second Grand Slam of the course as a brand new member of the Selected ‘Club de los Hundred’, one of the few records that were missing for completing the best player in history than little by little, in the final stretch of his career, renabaña supplementary achievements with which he further enlarge his legend.
The Serbian that on May 22 turned 38 and that, as happened long ago to Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, he already naturally assumes more consultations about his possible good Connors and the Swiss Roger Federer.
Djokovic travels through the season with a new trophy, the one achieved in Geneva, where he had only competed in 2024 when he reached the semifinals, surpassed by the Czech Tomas Machac.
One hundred titles now light the winner of twenty -four Grand Slam, three less than Federer, who closed his professional tour with 103 and nine below the Connors, the player so far with more amount of successes in a race, 109. Djokovic moves away from the 94 that Ivan Lendl had, the room in that classification, and of the 92 with which the Spanish Rafael Nadal, the fifth in the fifth board.
The third was the defeated and Djokovic, with a new coaching staff, in the hands of Dusan Vemic and Boris Bosjankovic, did not waste a new final to tie that achievement. He had it in his hand in Shanghai, last year, but he could not number one in the world, the Italian Jannik Sinner; And months ago he stroked the goal again but was surpassed in the Miami 1000 Masters final by the Czech Jakub Mensik.
He tied the title number 100 Djokovic in its end 143 of the circuit to expire to the curse that dragged since November 2023, when he won in the 1000 Masters of Paris and in the ATP finals for the seventh time. Those were their last trophies in the Tour.
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Djokovic, to the 100
He won the gold in Paris, in the Games of 2024. He took a weight off that time and matched those achieved by the American Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal, the only ones until that time to once win the four major tournaments and get on the top of the podium in an Olympic appointment.
The player who has been number one in the world (428) has had to assume a new reality, in thirteen different seasons. At the top of the circuit for eight years, the longest number one in history (36 years and 321 days), crossed 2024 outside the success. He did not win any tournament in that campaign although he stroked Wimbledon again, beaten by Carlos Alcaraz.
“It is a new reality for me, I have to say it, trying to win a game or two, without thinking of going far in the tournaments. It is a completely different sensation from the one I have had for more than 20 years in the circuit. It is a mental challenge that I face on the track. I suppose it is the cycle of life,” he assumed with some resignation Novak Djokovic after falling eliminated in his first game of the Masters 1000 of Montecarlo.
It is the new situation of the player with the most 1000 Masters titles in history, with forty, which left four tournaments of this 2025 without won any game. It happened to him in Doha, eliminated by the Italian Matteo Berrettini, then in Indian Wells, defeated by the Dutch Botic Van de Zandschulp and then in those of whipped land, in Montecarlo, won by the Chilean Alejandro Tabilo and in Madrid, by the Italian Matteo Matteo Arnaldi.
With the semifinals at the Australia Open and the Miami final as the only credentials of the year, Djokovic arrived in Geneva after renouncing Rome. Now accumulate victories and better sensations. Triumphs against Hungarian Marton Fucsoovics, Arnaldi and British Cameron Norrie, with the only one who left a set, before reaching the final.
Sale Novak Djokovic from Geneva with 38 years old and one hundred titles behind him. A new record, another record to add to your populated relationship of merits in your curriculum. In the Swiss city the added pressure accumulated by the bad results was left; For that bad career unsuspected for him, for that suspicion about his ability to deal with the new batch, to question the mastery of Sinner and Alcarraz, of the possibility of losing to anyone.
The Serbian to Paris now goes to undertake a new challenge, the tour in a new Grand Slam in which he no longer leaves a favorite or in which he concentrates, rather than for his legend, the attention of time ago. But the myth is maintained and with him everything that entails. It will go to its rhythm, section to section in the painting. As far as fate derives and as a member of the Club de los Hundred.
With EFE information.
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