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.