Djokovic wins record 23rd slam title at Roland-Garros

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Novak Djokovic has won his men's-record 23rd expansive slam rubric with a 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-5 triumph implicit Casper Ruud successful the Roland-Garros final.

Djokovic, a 36-year-old from Serbia, broke a necktie with rival Rafael Nadal for the astir large singles trophies successful the past of men's tennis, which dates to the 1800s.

Nadal, a 14-time champion astatine Roland-Garros, missed this year's tourney due to the fact that helium is injured.

Serbia's Novak Djokovic reacts during his last lucifer of the French Open. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias) (AP)

This triumph goes alongside the French Open titles earned by Djokovic successful 2016 and 2021, making him the lone antheral with astatine slightest 3 from each large event.

Since collecting his precise archetypal Slam trophy astatine the 2008 Australian Open, helium has accumulated totals of 10 there, 7 astatine Wimbledon and 3 astatine the US Open.

Also worthy noting: Djokovic is again halfway to a calendar-year Grand Slam — winning each 4 majors successful 1 play — thing nary antheral has achieved since Rod Laver successful 1969.

Djokovic came adjacent to pulling disconnected that feat successful 2021, erstwhile helium won the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon and made it each the mode to the rubric lucifer astatine the US Open earlier losing to Daniil Medvedev.

Djokovic volition resume that monumental pursuit astatine Wimbledon, which begins connected the writer of the All England Club connected July 3.

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