Rafael Nadal vs Novak Djokovic French Open 2012 Final on 10/6/2012 at Roland Garros

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Djokovic: hard to make the record books

Three players in the men’s French open championship could make history with a victory at the Roland Garros stadium this year. Rafe Nadal would become the first to win seven French Open titles, Roger Federer would earn himself  a record breaking seventeenth grand slam title and Novak Djokovic would become the first person for forty three years to hold all four grand slam titles at the same time.

Djokivic who si the current world number one already holds the Wimbledon, Australian Open and US Open championships and a victory in Paris would put him down in the history books as he achieves what Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer have failed to do. Fellow tennis player and world number four, Andy Murray believes that should the Serbian win in Paris, his achievement would be one of the greatest achievement in tennis history as the twenty five year old looks to win a fourth consecutive grand slam victory.

Truly a victory for Djokivic would turn him into a super star of the tennis world and no doubt have him ranked alongside Federer and Borg as one of the greatest players to have ever picked up a tennis racket. Before he is able to secure this feat he perhaps has the most difficult job ahead of him as he plays on his unfavoured court type and on defending French Open champion Rafa Nadal’s favoured court type of clay, where the Spaniard has dominated for the last 8 years as he chases his seventh French trophy. Nadal’s clay prowess has twice denied Roger Federer from securing all four grand slams in at one time and it is hard to look past the powerful Majorcan to deny Djokivic from reaching his historic goal.

Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic on top of the Burj Al-Arab Hotel

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Novak Djokovic vs. Tennis Machine

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DJOKOVIC SET TO MEET MURRAY

Tennis’s top ranked player Novak Djokovic will bid to win his second consecutive title at Miami Masters or the Sony Ericsson Open when he goes head to head with Scottish tennis ace Andy Murray in the final. After his defeat of Rafael Nadal in a grueling 5 hour 53 minute long marathon match in the final of the first Grand Slam of the year the Australian Open, many fans thought that they would get to see an encore with the top two ranked players in the world slated to meet in the Final but Nadal was forced to withdraw from the tournament ahead of his Semi Final match against Murray due to a knee injury, depriving the fans of another big match.

But what they will be getting as a replacement promises to be just as compelling. The fourth tanked player in the ATP Tour rankings, Andy Murray is the only player who has managed to defeat the Serbian Novak Djokovic twice since he became the top ranked player in the world and this is their 13^th career meeting.

Having grown up together almost, playing against each other since their junior days, both know the other’s plays inside out and this promises to grow into a rivalry of the magnitude of the Federer-Nadal rivalry, if only Murray could win a few Grand Slams.

Djokovic has an overall record of 19-2 in 2012 and he is leading Murray 7-5 on the head to head count as well and the experts are of the opinion that the match is going to be too close to call. However, Novak Djokovic that he will be able to win the Final and avenge the loss to Murray in the same stage of the 2009 edition and make the number one slot more secure ahead of the clay court season.

BEST POSSIBLE START

Novak Djokovic may have had the best possible start to 2012, having won the Australian open beating Rafael Nadal in an epic final that lasted over five hours to win his third Australian Open crown and fifth Grand Slam overall, but he is not happy with that and has already set his sights on achieving something that has not been done for quite some time and that is to win the Career Slam and Golden Slam.

The Djoker is yet to make his mark at Roland Garros, having reached the semi finals stages of the French Open on three occasions and this year, he is looking to take the crown for himself.

But he has the King of Clay standing in his way with Rafael Nadal, still reeling after three consecutive Grand Slam final losses to Djokovic and would not give up his crown without a fight. Novak Djokovic is also looking forward to the Olympic Games to be held in London this year, knowing a win there and at the French Open would give him a career Golden Slam that has not been achieved for many years now.

But 24 year old knows that it will not be an easy task and he has been working hard on it ever since winning the Australian Open. The only person ever to have done the Golden Slam was Steffi Graf way back in 1988 and if he does manage to win it, Djokovic will be considered as a legend in the game of tennis.

Having won the Bronze Medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Novak Djokovic knows that success does not come easily at the Games and with his experience this times, he hopes that he can get the better of his opponents and write his name down in the history books.