4 milestones Novak Djokovic could achieve in 2020

Modified Mar 09, 2020 11:48 GMT

#2 900 singles match wins

Novak Djokovic poses with his 2018 Cincinnati title

After leading Serbia to the Davis Cup quarterfinals at the revamped single-week Finals in Madrid, Djokovic closed his 2019 season with a 57-11 match-win record - to improve to 893-187 in his career.

Djokovic starts his 2020 season at the inaugural ATP Cup, where depending on how he and his team fares, the Serb would get to play a maximum of five singles matches.

The world No. 2's next stop would be as the defending champion at the Australian Open. During the course of the week in Melbourne, Djokovic could achieve his seventh win of the year to record the 900th singles win of his career.

That would make the Serb the sixth member of the 900 (or more) all-time club, which is led by Jimmy Connors (1274), Roger Federer (1237), Ivan Lendl (1068), Rafael Nadal (977) and Guillermo Vilas (949).

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