| 17 August 2011
Novak Djokovic is playing some frighteningly good tennis right now – not even Rafael Nadal can touch him.
He’s too hot for arguably the greatest player of all time, Roger Federer to handle, while Andy Murray just cannot get anywhere near him.
It has been an awesome year for the Serb, and the scary thing is he just seems to be getting better and better.
No more than two years ago, pundits were talking about how they felt sorry for Djokovic playing in the same era as Federer and Nadal, saying he could never be recognised as a great player, with such exceptional talents playing at the same time as him.
But what do pundits know, hey?
Such analysis seems to have done nothing if not spur Djokovic on in a bid to prove all his doubters wrong... and how.
In July, Djokovic rocketed to the top of the tennis world rankings for the first time in his career, having won the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon – all in 2011.
As recently as last week, he won the ATP Masters to become the first player since Pete Sampras to capture an ATP tournament in a debut as the top ranked player in the world.
Whether this is just a spell of remarkably good form – or more a case of him morphing into one of the greatest all-time tennis players, is probably the main question.
What should be said is you don’t win three of tennis’ biggest tournaments in the space of a year with luck alone.
Djokovic was close to breaking one of the greatest and longest held tennis records back in June. Had he not been defeated by Roger Federer, he would have been on target to obliterate John McEnroe’s 42 win unbeaten start to a tennis season.
He is currently involved in the Cincinnati Masters and has aspirations to add that to his growing list of tournament wins.
It will be a tough ask for him with some of the top stars in world tennis all involved – but this is a rollercoaster that does not look like slowing down anytime soon.
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