DJOKOVIC GOING FOR THREE-QUARTERS SLAM

Written by: on 12th September 2011
US Open 2011
DJOKOVIC GOING FOR THREE-QUARTERS SLAM

Novak Djokovic of Serbia reacts after winning a long point from Roger Federer of Switzerland during their Semifinal round match on the thirteenth day of the 2011 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA 10 September 2011. The US Open has been extended due to weather for the fourth year in a row and the men's final will now be played on 12 September 2011. EPA/JUSTIN LANE  |


Prior to the 2011 season, Novak Djokovic had won a single Grand Slam tournament (the 2008 Australian Open). Today he’ll be playing for his third Slam title this year, which would make him the 11th man in tennis history and the fifth in the Open Era to win three of the four Slams in a single season—and, amazingly enough, the third different man to achieve the feat in the last five years. All but two of those men won the U.S. Championships/US Open as part of their three victories

OLYMPUS US OPEN SERIES UPDATE

With a victory in today’s men’s singles final, Novak Djokovic would earn $2.3 million—$1.8 million as the men’s singles champion and $500,000 in bonus prize money after finishing second in the 2011 Olympus US Open Series Bonus Challenge. That total would be the second-most in tennis history, behind only the $2.4 million Roger Federer won in 2007 as the US Open and Olympus US Open Series champion.








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