Novak Djokovic‘s 2022 was a very complicated and certainly different year than the other seasons of his career. The Serbian champion has played not even half of the available tournaments, held back by his decision not to carry out the Covid-19 vaccine.
During this year Nole has skipped tournaments such as the Australian Open and the US Open and all the tournaments of the Australian and American season respectively that preceded them. A difficult year with Nole forced to return to the field after months of absence and with a condition to be regained.
Despite this, the Balkan champion has achieved several successes, the most important is undoubtedly the Wimbledon tournament. A particular year with Nole who also dropped in the standings due to the decision of the Wimbledon organizers to freeze the ATP ranking.
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In recent weeks Nole has fully returned to the circuit and has done it in the best way, winning the tournaments in Tel Aviv and Nur Sultan. Excellent news because in this way the tennis player will have the chance to participate in the ATP Finals in Turin, the last great event of this season.
Novak Djokovic, yet another great record for him
Several times this season Nole struggled in the first set and then reacted by winning matches after a tough battle. This is probably due to the several months off, but thanks to this Nole is once again the protagonist of a great statistic.
Djokovic is the tennis player with the best win percentage in the challenge ratio playing for matches won after losing the first set. The twenty-one time winner of Grand Slam tournaments has won 7 of the 12 matches where he lost the first set and thus has a percentage of 58.3%, as reported by colleagues at Sportkeeda.
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In second place in this ranking with equal merit are Nick Kyrgios, Rafael Nadal and our Jannik Sinner with a percentage of 55.6%, much better than Andrey Rublev and Carlos Alcaraz.
Here is the detailed statistic
Tennis players who have won matches after losing the first set Novak Djokovic (7 wins out of 12 matches) – 58.3
Nick Kyrgios (10 out of 18 wins) – 55.6
Jannik Sinner (10 out of 18 wins) – 55.6
Rafael Nadal (5 out of 9 wins) – 55.6
Andrey Rublev (10 out of 21 wins) – 47.6
Carlos Alcaraz (7 out of 15 wins) – 46.7
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