Statistical battle: Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer

Novak Djokovic’s record against the Top 30 players in the ATP rankings as on 19 August 2013

Looking at Djokovic’s record, it is pretty identical. Though not quite as dominant as Rafa, the World No.1 has a losing record against only Nadal and Federer. This, of course, has to do with the Serb becoming a dominant force a few years later than Nadal.

He has a pretty impressive record against the other members of the Top 10, with his record against Murray now at 11-8 after some of the Scot’s recent victories in the last two years.

Youzhny seems to be quite a challenge to the top players as he again has one of the better losing records against the Serbian, managing to win 3 of their 8 encounters. Djokovic’s struggles against big-serving American John Isner are also well documented and the record shows just that – of the five matches played between them, Djokovic has only won three.

Djokovic, also, has not played against a few of the players in question, thereby lowering his overall win percentages. Against Kei Nishikori, the Djoker has a 50% record, splitting the two matches that they’ve played.