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Full Novak Djokovic Biography
Novak Đoković (commonly spelled Djokovic in English-language sources,,, Serbian Cyrillic: Новак Ђоковић, pronounced , listen (help·info)) is a Serbian tennis player who turned professional in 2003. An up-and-coming player at 20 years of age, Đoković has already proven himself to be an all-court player with an abundance of talent. His major achievements have come in 2007, where he was the runner-up at the U.S. Open and reached three Masters Series finals, winning in Miami and Montréal. Also, he reached the semifinals at French Open and Wimbledon. His highest ranking on the ATP Tour is World No. 3, which he reached on July 9, 2007.
Novak Đoković was born May 22, 1987 in Belgrade, then-Yugoslavia. He is the oldest child of father Srđan and mother Dijana. In addition to Novak, there are two younger sons, Đorđe and Marko. Đoković started playing tennis at age 4, and when 12 he attended the Nikola Pilić Academy (for tennis) in Munich. Đoković speaks Serbian, German and English.
He often does humorous off-court impersonations of his fellow players, many of whom he is friends with. This became evident to the tennis world after his 2007 US Open quarterfinal win over Carlos Moyà, where he entertained the audience with impersonations of Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova.
In the beginning of this professional career, Ðoković mainly played in Futures and Challenger tournaments, winning three of each type of tournament.
He participated in the 2006 Hopman Cup with fellow Serbian player Ana Ivanović where the pairing narrowly missed the final.
He continued his great run in 2006 by shooting up the rankings. In May 2006, various reports appeared in the British media about Novak's mother Dijana reportedly approaching Britain's Lawn Tennis Association about her son joining British tennis ranks and the possibility of their entire 5-person family moving from Serbia to live in Britain. All the rumours didn't affect Đoković's play, however. He started 2006 ranked 78th, but with an excellent run to the quarter-finals in Roland Garros and a 4th round at Wimbledon, he found himself in the top 40. Just three weeks after Wimbledon he won his maiden title in Amersfoort without losing a set defeating Nicolás Massú in the final. Đoković won his second career title in Metz and with this victory moved into the top 20 for the first time in his career.
In 2007, his performances in the Masters Series events at Indian Wells and Miami, where he was runner-up and champion respectively, pushed him well into the world's top ten. In those tournaments, which were his first and second Masters finals, he defeated fellow rising star Andy Murray in the semi finals without dropping a set in either match. He lost the Indian Wells final to Rafael Nadal, but avenged this defeat by beating Nadal in the Miami event, before defeating the resurgent Guillermo Cañas in the final (6-3, 6-2, 6-4). He later played in the prestigious Monte Carlo Open, only to be defeated by David Ferrer in his third round match in straight sets. He reached the quarterfinals of both Rome and Hamburg Masters, but lost to Carlos Moyà and Nadal, respectively. At the tournament in Estoril, Đoković defeated Frenchman Richard Gasquet 7-6, 0-6, 6-1, in the final.
During the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, he won an epic match against Marcos Baghdatis in the quarter finals. The match ended 7-6(4), 7-6(9), 6-7(3), 4-6, 7-5 and lasted 5 hours, just 5 minutes shy of the longest singles match in a single day in Wimbledon history. In his semi-final match, he was forced to retire against Rafael Nadal due to a back injury and foot problem.
He garnered further success in the Masters Series, winning the 2007 Canada Masters. In the final he defeated top seeded Roger Federer 7-6(2), 2-6, 7-6(2). In reaching the championship, he achieved the remarkable feat of defeating the World Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick, respectively) on three consecutive days. This is the first time a player has accomplished this since Boris Becker in 1994. Moreover, Đoković became only the 2nd person, after Tomáš Berdych, to have defeated both Federer and Nadal since they became the dominant #1 and #2 players in the world. His successful performance made Björn Borg state that Đoković "is definitely a contender to win a Grand Slam." However, Đoković's appearance the following week at the Cincinnati Masters, resulted disappointingly with a straight-set loss to Carlos Moyà in the 2nd round.
He nevertheless came to the 2007 US Open with a lot of confidence and expectation and reached the final where he lost to World no. 1 Roger Federer 7-6(4), 7-6(2), 6-4. On his way to the final, Đoković won an epic 5-set (6-7(4), 7-6(5), 5-7, 7-5, 7-6(2)) second round match against Radek Štěpánek after nearly 5 hours of play.
Đoković returned after a minor injury to Vienna, to beat Stanislas Wawrinka in the final 6-4, 6-0 and take his 5th title of the year. The win enables Đoković to gain closer on Rafael Nadal in the ATP Tour Rankings. Đoković's next tournament was the prestigous Madrid Masters, where he lost to David Nalbandian 6-4, 7-6(4) in the semi-finals, an improvement on the previous years finish.
Đoković is sponsored by Wilson and Adidas. He uses a heavily customised Wilson n-Blade equipped with a hybrid of Technifibre and Wilson strings. Đoković also wears the Adidas Barricade IV shoe. |
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