djokovic won roland garros in 2015.
djokovic won roland garros in 2015.
in which year did djokovic win roland garros?
2015
wawrinka next competed in the french open, as the 8th seed. he beat marsel i̇lhan and dusan lajovic in three and four sets, respectively, before beating steve johnson and gilles simon in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals, and defeated compatriot roger federer in straight sets to reach his first roland garros semifinal. this was also wawrinka's first win over federer in a major tournament. winning in four sets against jo-wilfried tsonga in the semifinals, he earned his second appearance in a grand slam final, this time against top seed novak djokovic. he defeated djokovic in four sets, after being down a break in the fourth set and 0–40 in a subsequent game. he broke djokovic's service twice in the set, reeling off six of the final seven games of the match. with this victory, wawrinka claimed his second grand slam tournament title, and djokovic failed to win a personal career grand slam. wawrinka's french open championship also denied djokovic the 2015 calendar year grand slam, as djokovic won all other grand slam tournaments that year. mirroring his victory at the 2014 australian open, wawrinka was seeded 8th at this tournament, defeated the 2nd and 1st seeds in the quarterfinals and finals, respectively, clinched the championship match in four sets, and rose five positions in the atp rankings, back to the no. 4 position, which was his original position at the beginning of the year. this was also the 2nd time since sergi bruguera at the 1993 french open that the champion defeated no. 1 (novak djokovic) and no. 2 (roger federer) players in the same grand slam (wawrinka also accomplished this feat at the 2014 australian open). wawrinka is the first man to win roland garros after losing in the first round in the previous year since albert costa in 2002, and the first former boys' champion to win the men's title since mats wilander in 1982.
stan wawrinka
djokovic won his first french open title to complete a career grand slam. the serb defeated lu yen-hsun of chinese taipei in one hour and 30 minutes to stretch his undefeated streak to 12-0 in first-round play in paris. djokovic defeated the belgian steve darcis in 2 hours and 19 minutes to reach the third round of the french open and earn his 50th win at roland garros, becoming just the third player in the open era after roger federer and serena williams to record 50 wins at each of the four grand slams. the world no. 1 defeated britain's aljaž bedene in straight sets after just over two hours, in what was more of a fight against time to speed into the last 16. some days trailing by a set in damp stop-start conditions djokovic defeated roberto bautista agut in three hours and 16 minutes to reach his 28th successive grand slam championship quarter-final. djokovic progressed to his 30th grand slam (6th straight roland garros) semi-final with a win over czech tomáš berdych following a controversial rain delay. for the second straight year, a quarter-final victory at roland garros guaranteed the 29-year-old serbian his place in the atp world tour finals and at the same time became the first player in tennis history to earn more than us$100 million in prize money over his 14-season pro career. djokovic advanced to his fourth roland garros final by dispatching dominic thiem in one hour and 48 minutes, putting him into his sixth consecutive and 20th overall grand slam final. in the final, djokovic defeated murray 3–6, 6–1, 6–2, 6–4. with his first french open title, djokovic completed the career grand slam and became only the third man to hold all four major titles simultaneously and the first since laver won all four in 1969. djokovic also became the only man ever to hold all four majors on three different surfaces at the same time (at the time of the previous achievements, the australian and us opens were played on grass).
2016 novak djokovic tennis season