How the table of top Grand Slam tournament winners remained after Novak Djokovic’s defeat at the US Open

This Sunday, Novak Djokovic suffered a severe blow by losing in the final of US Open at the hands of Daniil Medvedev. The fall to the Russian not only prevented the world number one from reaching the milestone of winning the four major tournaments of the season, but also it deprived him of being the tennis player with the most Grand Slam titles in history.

Djokovic will have to wait until the Australian Open in 2022 to try to be the lonely leader of the all-time great tournament champions table. So far, share the top with the Swiss Roger Federer and with spanish Rafael Nadal, all with 20 trophies.

How is the list of 20 Grand Slam titles made up of Nole? The Serbian was consecrated nine times in the Australian Open (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2015, 2019, 2020 and 2021), two in Roland Garros (2016 and 2021), six in Wimbledon (2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2021) and three at the US Open (2011, 2015 and 2018). In addition, he won at least once each of the category tournaments Masters 1000. Federer, meanwhile, has 8 Wimbledon, 6 Australia Open, 5 US Open and 1 Roland Garros, while Nadal has 13 Roland Garros, 4 US Open, 2 Wimbledon and 1 Australia Open.

They are also the top absolute winners in three of the four most prominent tournaments: Rafael at Roland Garros with 13, Roger at Wimbledon with 8, Novak in Australia with 9. The US Open? Federer shares the record with Pete Sampras and Jimmy Connors, all with 5 crowns.

A not minor detail in this race for being the maximum winner in history – a merit that today remained in the hands of Nole – is that Federer has been dry for more than three years at the Grand Slam: last won a title of this magnitude in the Australia Open del 2018. Along the way, he only managed to reach the Wimbledon final in 2019, where he was bested by Djokovic. It is also necessary to remember that Djokovic is 34 years old, while Federer is 39 (he turns 40 on August 8) and Nadal, 35.

The disappointment in the 2021 season for Nole will be not having been able to reach the Golden Slam, the way in which the fact of win all four Grand Slam tournaments and the Olympic gold medal in the same season. The huge expectations after having been crowned in Australia, at Roland Garros and at Wimbledon, but after the London tournament everything was in decline.

In Tokyo the Serbian had an opaque performance: he could not reach the end after being overtaken in semis by the German Alexander Zverev and then he lost the bronze medal match to the Spaniard Pablo Carreño Busta. Then, he fell to Medvedev at the US Open and was left without a Grand Slam. That is why the merit of the Golden Slam until now continues to belong to a single tennis player in all the history of conventional tennis: the German. Steffi Graf, which reached it in 1988. This Sunday, the Dutch Diede de Groot He also reached it in wheelchair tennis.

THE TOP TEN OF THE GRAND SLAM TITLE CHART

Novak Djokovic: 20 (9 Australia Open, 6 Wimbledon, 3 US Open y 2 Roland Garros)

Roger Federer: 20 (8 Wimbledon, 6 Australia Open, 5 US Open y 1 Roland Garros)

Rafael Nadal: 20 (13 Roland Garros, 4 US Open, 2 Wimbledon y 1 Australia Open)

Pete Sampras: 14 (7 Wimbledon, 5 US Open y 2 Australia Open)

Björn Borg: 11 (6 Roland Garros and 5 Wimbledon)

Ivan Lendl: 8 (3 Roland Garros, 3 Wimbledon y 2 Australia Open)

Jimmy Connors: 8 (5 US Open, 2 Wimbledon y 1 Australia Open)

Andre Agassi: 8 (4 Australia Open, 2 US Open, 1 Roland Garros y 1 Wimbledon)

John McEnroe: 7 (4 US Open y 3 Wimbledon)

Mats Wilander: 7 (3 Australia Open, 3 Roland Garros y 1 US Open)

THE OTHER GRAND SLAM TITLE WINNERS

11°- Stefan Edberg y Boris Becker: 6

12°- John Newcombe y Rod Laver: 5

13°- Guillermo Vilas, Ken Rosewall, Jim Courier and Manuel Santana: 4

14°- Andy Murray, Jan Kodes, Arthur Ashe, Stanislas Wawrinka and Gustavo Kuerten: 3

15°- Illie Nastase, Patrick Rafter, Lleyton Hewitt, Marat Safin, Stan Smith, Sergi Bruguera, Yevgeny Kafelnikov y Johan Kriek: 2

16°- Juan Martín del Potro, Gastón Gaudio, Andrés Gómez, Andy Roddick, Michael Chang, Goran Ivanisevic, Dominic Thiem, Vitas Gerulaitis, Pat Cash, Michael Stich, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marin Cilic, Andrés Gimeno, Manuel Orantes, Roscoe Tanner, Petr Korda , Carlos Moyá, Mark Edmondson, Adriano Panatta, Brian Teacher, Yannick Noah, Thomas Muster, Richard Krajicek, Thomas Johansson, Albert Costa and Daniil Medvedev: 1

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