For some time now in men’s tennis, there has been speculation about when the next generation of players will usurp the current crop. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic – referred to as the Big Three – ensured that it didn’t happen last decade as they won 33 of the 40 Grand Slam events that took place.
Federer took his majors tally to 20 by the end of the last decade, the most by any man in singles history. At 38, he is certainly not getting any younger, but continues to be at the top of the game.
Nadal, who is second in the all-time list of singles Grand Slam titles for men with 19, is not called the King of Clay without reason. Twelve of his 19 majors have come in the French Open, including eight in the last decade. Apart from 2015 and 2016, Nadal has won the French Open every year in last 10 years.
Djokovic has 16 Grand Slam singles title in his kitty. With a record seven Australian Open titles, including six in the previous decade, Djokovic became only the third man – and the first since Rod Laver in 1969 – to hold all four majors at the same time, when he won the French Open for the first time in 2016. Djokovic is also the only male player to have won all nine Masters 1000 tournaments – a feat he achieved in 2018.
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