Novak Djokovic Life

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Novak Djokovic ( born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player.
Novak Djokovic has been ranked world No.
1 for a record total 373 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No.
1 a record seven times.
Novak Djokovic has won 21 Grand Slam mens singles titles, including a record nine Australian Open titles.
Novak Djokovic is currently ranked world No.
5 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
Overall, Novak Djokovic has won 92 ATP singles titles, which include a record 65 Big Titles and a record 38 Masters titles.
Djokovic has completed a non-calendar year Grand Slam in singles, becoming the only man in tennis history to be the reigning champion of the four majors at once across three different surfaces.
He is also the first man in the Open Era to achieve a double Career Grand Slam in singles and the only player to complete the Career Golden Masters in singles on the ATP Tour, which Novak Djokovic has done twice.Djokovic began his professional career in 2003.
At age 20, Novak Djokovic disrupted Roger Federers and Rafael Nadals streak of 11 consecutive majors to win his first major title at the 2008 Australian Open.
By 2010, Djokovic also separated himself from the rest of the field to join Federer and Nadal in the Big Three, collectively considered by some to be the three most successful male tennis players of all time.
In 2011, Djokovic ascended to No.
1 for the first time, winning three out of the four majors and five Masters titles.
Novak Djokovic remained the most successful player in mens tennis for the rest of the decade.
In 2015, Djokovic had his most successful season, reaching 15 consecutive finals and winning a season-record 10 Big Titles.
His dominant run extended through to the 2016 French Open, where he completed a non-calendar year Grand Slam and his first career Grand Slam, becoming the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four majors simultaneously and setting a ranking points record (16,950).Representing Serbia, Djokovic led the Serbian national team to their first Davis Cup title in 2010 and to the inaugural ATP Cup title in 2020.
Moreover, Novak Djokovic won the bronze medal for Serbia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Djokovic has won the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award four times (2012, 2015, 2016, 2019), the BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year award in 2011 and the LÉquipe Champion of Champions award in 2021.
Novak Djokovic is also a recipient of the Order of St.
Sava, the Order of Karađorđes Star, and the Order of the Republika Srpska.Beyond competition, Djokovic is an active philanthropist and a former ATP player council president.
In August 2020, Djokovic and Vasek Pospisil announced the formation of the Professional Tennis Players Association as the first player-only association in tennis, citing the need for players to have more influence on the tour and advocating better prize money structure for lower ranked players.