Djokovic wins Australian Open Title, 2008
Novak Djokovic from Serbia won the Australian Open 2008 men’s Singles final by defeating Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on 27 Jan,2008. The 20-year-old Serbian claimed the biggest win of his flourishing career on Day 12 at Melbourne Park, maintaining his record of winning each of his matches in straight sets with a 7-5 6-3 7-6 (7-5) win over world No.1 Roger Federer.
Novak Djokovic, 20, is the youngest player to win the Australian title since Stefan Edberg defeated Mats Wilander in 1985. Both players began the match nervously, with Tsonga dropping his serve after his opening salvo went long by about a metre, only for Djokovic to likewise surrender his own first service game.Both players came close to dropping their serves again. Games went with serve early in the second set until the seventh game when a couple of errors from the Frenchman and then a reflex, defensive return from Djokovic for a winner led to the break that eventually gave Djokovic the set. The momentum looked to have changed early in the fourth set though when Djokovic injured himself stretching for a volley, and he called for treatment while leading 3-2. With Djokovic trying to keep the points shorter in an attempt to win the match in four sets, Tsonga was nonetheless unable to make the most of the changed circumstances as his own weariness kicked in. The set eventually went to a tie-breaker after Tsonga held in the 12th game soon after calling for the crowd to make some noise, but it was Djokovic who raced away with it by winning five of the first six points and he fell to his back in delight when he sealed victory.
Novak Djokovic, seeded three, is the first ever Serbian to win a Grand Slam title and, at age 20, the youngest male champion to lay his hands on the silverware that matters at Melbourne Park. Novak Djokovic has won $1.37 million first prize but he is already worth almost five million in carrier. And he has won the title by just playing just 15 hours and 17 minutes. Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will get more than double his total career prize money. As an hourly rate, it equates to about $38,000 an hour as well as a dramatically improved ranking of No.18 in the world. And he has spent just 17 hours and 40 minutes on the court during Australian Open 2008.
Novak Djokovic is from a family of skiers on a mountainside in Serbia, yet as a hard-headed child, he picked out a flat, rectangular space in which to assert himself. He has since become one of the best defenders in tennis, and Sunday evening, he found a way to blunt Tsonga’s brilliant, unexpected run and win the Australian Open championship, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (2). Tsonga, world ranked 38 and playing in the second week of a Grand Slam event for the first time in his career, put on a remarkably nerveless display of attacking tennis but, in the end, the Frenchman’s relative lack of experience on the big stage made a huge difference.
Djokovic was Born on May 22 1987 in Belgrade. He turned professional in 2003 and wins first Futures title in Serbia. In 2004 he won the first Davis Cup,Janis Skroderis of Latvia. And Wins first Challenger Tour title, beating Daniele Bracciali 6-1, 6-2 in the final in Budapest. In 2006 he won two ATP titles and Wins five out of six Davis Cup matches losing only to Roger Federer. In 2007 he won first Masters Series title, beating Guillermo Cañas 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in Miami. And now Wins first Grand Slam Title, beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Melbourne, 2008. Djokovic won 136 points and Tsonga 122 in this Australian Open 2008.
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