{"id":548,"date":"2025-06-02T17:12:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:12:41","slug":"novak-djokovic-becomes-oldest-man-in-54-years-to-achieve-major-french-open-feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic becomes oldest man in 54 years to achieve major French Open feat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic reached a remarkable milestone with his dominant straight-set win against Cameron Norrie at the 2025\u00a0French Open.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian icon cruised to a 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 victory over world No 81 Norrie in the last 16 at the Paris Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/category\/french-open\">Djokovic<\/a> broke seven times en route to improving his head-to-head record against the 29-year-old Brit to 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>In his on-court interview, Djokovic said: \u201cI feel good. I expect each day to play better and better. I\u2019ve played 12 really good, solid sets so far. Everything is looking good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about reaching 100 wins at Roland Garros, the former world No 1 added: \u201cIt\u2019s a good number, a happy number for me. But the 101st victory is the most important (laughs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s another victory but it\u2019s obviously not finished here for me. I\u2019m happy to add to the history of this sport that has given me so much. I hope there will be another win in a couple of days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The No 6 seed has progressed to the quarter-finals without dropping a set in his four dominant wins.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-time major champion will face world No 3 Alexander Zverev in a quarter-final blockbuster. Zverev was leading Tallon Griekspoor 6-4, 3-0 in his fourth round match when the Dutchman was forced to retire.<\/p>\n<h2>French Open News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/facts-stats\/most-french-open-mens-singles-match-wins-djokovic-nadal\"><strong>The 7 men with most French Open match wins: Rafael Nadal 112, Novak Djokovic hits milestone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/french-open\/tim-henman-bold-novak-djokovic-prediction-wimbledon\"><strong>Tim Henman makes bold Novak Djokovic prediction as he looks beyond Roland Garros<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic\u2019s win against Norrie was his 100th victory at the French Open, which makes him the third man to reach a century of wins at a single Grand Slam event.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Nadal won 112 matches at Roland Garros, while Roger Federer amassed 105 victories at Wimbledon and 102 at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, who celebrated his 38th birthday on May 22, has become the oldest man to reach the French Open quarter-finals since Hungarian Istvan Gulyas in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>With his fourth round win, Djokovic extended his winning streak to eight matches \u2014 a run that includes four wins from his 100th ATP singles title run at the Geneva Open ahead of Roland Garros.<\/p>\n<p>The Serb is chasing a fourth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/category\/french-open\">French Open<\/a> title and record-extending 25th Grand Slam overall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/novak-djokovic-verdict-stefanos-tsitsipas-hiring-goran-ivanisevic\">Stefanos Tsitsipas told how he must improve by Novak Djokovic after hiring Serb\u2019s former coach<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/facts-stats\/novak-djokovic-french-open-roland-garros-100-win-milestone\">Novak Djokovic becomes oldest man in 54 years to achieve major French Open feat<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/\">Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic reached a remarkable milestone with his dominant straight-set win against Cameron Norrie at the 2025\u00a0French Open. The Serbian icon cruised to a 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 victory over world No 81 Norrie in the last 16 at the Paris Grand Slam. Djokovic broke seven times en route to improving his head-to-head record against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}