Djokovic made history on his birthday

In the first match, Djokovic defeated the German Janik Hanfmann 6:3, 6:3 and thus won the quarterfinals of the tournament in Switzerland.

The winner of 24 Grand Slam titles in Geneva celebrated his 37th birthday, and in addition to the victory, he received a real birthday celebration and a cake.

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The audience sang him a song and greeted him with a standing ovation, because of which the Serbian tennis player was particularly touched.

In addition to "elevation 37", Novak reached the number of 1,100 victories on the ATP tour in this tournament and thus became the third player in the open era to record this feat.

The best Serbian tennis player thus joined Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer, who until Wednesday were the only two tennis players with at least 1,100 victories.

Djokovic now has almost 1,100 wins and 218 losses on the ATP tour. The unsurpassed record for the number of victories on the ATP tour hold Jimmy Connors with 1274 victories and 282 defeats, while Federer has 1251 victories and 275 defeats.