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Tale of the Tape: Novak Djokovic vs. Roger Federer Part 45

January 27, 2016 By Tennis Panorama News

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(January 27, 2016) The semifinal between No. 1 Novak Djokovic and No. 3 Roger Federer at the Australian Open on Thursday night will mark the 45th time that these two players have played each other. Here is a look at their head-to-head record.

1 NOVAK DJOKOVIC (SRB) v NO. 3 ROGER FEDERER (SUI)

Head-to-head: tied 22-22

2006     AMS Monte Carlo          Clay (O)           R64      Federer            63 26 63

2006     Davis Cup WG-PO        Hard (I)            R4        Federer            63 62 63

2007     Australian Open          Hard (O)          R16      Federer            62 75 63

2007     Dubai                           Hard (O)           QF       Federer            63 67(6) 63

2007     AMS Montreal               Hard (O)           FR        Djokovic           76(2) 26 76(2)

2007     US Open                      Hard (O)          FR        Federer            76(4) 76(2) 64

2008     Australian Open          Hard (O)          SF        Djokovic          75 63 76(5)

2008     AMS Monte Carlo          Clay (O)           SF        Federer            63 3-2 ret. (illness)

2008     US Open                      Hard (O)          SF        Federer            63 57 75 62

2009     Miami-1000                   Hard (O)           SF        Djokovic           36 62 63

2009     Rome-1000                   Clay (O)           SF        Djokovic           46 63 63

2009     Cincinnati-1000             Hard (O)           FR        Federer            61 75

2009     US Open                      Hard (O)          SF        Federer            76(3) 75 75

2009     Basel                            Hard (I)            FR        Djokovic           64 46 62

2010     Toronto-1000                Hard (O)           SF        Federer            61 36 75

2010     US Open                      Hard (O)          SF        Djokovic          57 61 57 62 75

2010     Shanghai                      Hard (O)           SF        Federer            75 64

2010     Basel                            Hard (I)            FR        Federer            64 36 61

2010     ATP World Tour Finals  Hard (I)            SF        Federer            61 64

2011     Australian Open           Hard (O)           SF       Djokovic           76(3) 75 64

2011     Dubai                           Hard (O)           FR       Djokovic           63 63

2011   Indian Wells-1000         Hard (O)           SF       Djokovic           63 36 62

2011     Roland Garros             Clay (O)           SF        Federer            76(5) 63 36 76(5)

2011     US Open                      Hard (O)          SF        Djokovic          67(7) 46 63 62 75

2012     Rome-1000                   Clay (O)           SF        Djokovic           62 76(4)

2012     Roland Garros             Clay(O)            SF        Djokovic          64 75 63

2012     Wimbledon                  Grass (O)         SF        Federer            63 36 64 63

2012     Cincinnati-1000             Hard (O)           FR        Federer             60 76(7)

2012     ATP World Tour Finals  Hard (I)            FR        Djokovic           76(6) 75

2013     Paris-1000                    Hard (I)            SF        Djokovic           46 63 62

2013     ATP World Tour Finals Hard (I)            RR       Djokovic           64 67(2) 62

2014     Dubai                           Hard (O)           SF        Federer            36 63 62

2014     Indian Wells-1000         Hard (O)           FR        Djokovic           36 63 76(3)

2014     Monte Carlo-1000         Clay (O)           SF        Federer            75 62

2014     Wimbledon                  Grass (O)         FR        Djokovic          67(7) 64 76(4) 57 64

2014     Shanghai-1000              Hard (O)           SF        Federer            64 64

2014     ATP World Tour Finals  Hard (I)            FR        Djokovic           w/o (back)

2015     Dubai                           Hard (O)           FR        Federer            63 75

2015     Indian Wells-1000         Hard (O)           FR        Djokovic           63 67(5) 62

2015     Rome-1000                   Clay (O)           FR        Djokovic           64 63

2015     Wimbledon                  Grass (O)         FR        Djokovic          76(1) 67(10) 64 63

2015     Cincinnati-1000             Hard (O)           FR        Federer            76(1) 63

2015     US Open                      Hard (O)          FR        Djokovic          64 57 64 64

2015     ATP World Tour Finals  Hard (I)            RR       Federer            75 62

2015     ATP World Tour Finals  Hard (I)            FR        Djokovic           63 64

 

This is the 45th meeting between Djokovic and Federer. This is the 2nd-most matches played in a head-to-head at Tour-level in the Open Era:

 

Novak Djokovic v Rafael Nadal 47
Roger Federer v Novak Djokovic 45
Ivan Lendl v John McEnroe 36

 

If Djokovic wins today, he will lead each of the other members of the big 5 – Federer, Murray (21-9), Nadal (24-23) and Wawrinka (20-4) – in their previous head-to-heads for the first time. Only 4 players hold a winning record against Djokovic at Tour-level where multiple matches have been played – Fernando Gonzalez (2-1), Ivo Karlovic (2-1), Andy Roddick (5-4) and Marat Safin (2-0).

 

This is Djokovic and Federer’s 15th Grand Slam encounter, extending their record for the most match-ups at the majors:

  No. of GS match-ups Win-loss
Novak Djokovic v Roger Federer 14 Djokovic leads 8-6
Novak Djokovic v Rafael Nadal 13 Nadal leads 9-4
Roger Federer v Rafael Nadal 11 Nadal leads 9-2
Ivan Lendl v John McEnroe 10 Lendl leads 7-3

 

Both Djokovic and Federer are bidding to reach their 6th Australian Open final and become the first man in the Open Era to reach 6 Australian Open finals.

 

         No. of Australian Open final appearances (Open Era)

Novak Djokovic 5
Stefan Edberg 5
Roger Federer 5
Andre Agassi 4
Ivan Lendl 4
Andy Murray 4
Mats Wilander 4

[NB Andy Murray could reach his 5th AO final if he defeats Raonic in Friday’s semifinal]

Possible final head-to-heads

  Murray Raonic
Djokovic 21-9 5-0
Federer 14-11 9-2

 

 

DJOKOVIC                                      v                                      FEDERER

 

28                                          Age                                          34

6’2”/1.88m                                  Height                                  6’1”/1.85m

1                                    ATP Ranking                                    3

60                                         Titles                                         88

212-34                     Career Grand Slam Record                     302-49

10 titles                  Best Grand Slam performance                 17 titles

55-6                         Australian Open Record                        80-12

696-146                              Career Record                             1067-239

459-86                         Career Record – Hard                        664-134

10-0                                  2016 Record                                   8-1

10-0                             2016 Record – Hard                              8-1

26-8                          Career Five-Set Record                         23-19

4                         Comebacks from 0-2 Down                         9

191-111                      Career Tiebreak Record                      387-211

3-1                            2016 Tiebreak Record                            1-1

 

Road to the Semifinals

DJOKOVIC Time   Time FEDERER
d. Hyeon Chung 63 62 64 1:55 1st round 1:12 d. Nikoloz Basilashvili 62 61 62
d. (WC) Quentin Halys 61 62 76(3) 1:40 2nd round 1:33 d. Alexandr Dolgopolov 63 75 61
d. No. 2 Andreas Seppi 61 75 76(6) 2:21 3rd round 2:40 d. No. 27 Grigor Dimitrov 64 36 61 64
d. No. 14 Gilles Simon 63 67(1) 64 46 63

d. No. 7 Kei Nishikori 63 62 64

4:32

2:07

Round of 16
Quarterfinals
1:28

2:16

d. No. 15 David Goffin 62 61 64

d. No. 6 Tomas Berdych 76(4) 62 64

         
total time on court 12:35 (IBM time) 9:09 total time on court

                                                                            

  • Five-time champion DJOKOVIC is bidding to reach his 5th consecutive Grand Slam final and move into joint-3rd place on the list for the most consecutive major finals reached in the Open Era. Just 2 different men in the Open Era have reached 5 or more consecutive Grand Slam finals.

 

  Player Consecutive Grand Slam finals
1 Roger Federer 10 – 2005 Wimbedon – 2007 US Open
2 Roger Federer 8 – 2008 Roland Garros – 2010 Australian Open
3 Rafael Nadal

Novak Djokovic??

5 – 2011 Roland Garros – 2012 Roland Garros

5 – 2015 Australian Open – 2016 Australian Open??

 

  • Djokovic is bidding to reach his 19th Grand Slam final and move into equal-3rd place with Ivan Lendl on the all-time list of most appearances in Grand Slam finals.

 

1 Roger Federer?? 28??
2 Rafael Nadal 20
3= Novak Djokovic??

Ivan Lendl

19??

19

5 Pete Sampras 18
6 Rod Laver 17
7= Bjorn Borg 16
  Ken Rosewall 16

 

  • Djokovic is through to his 29th Grand Slam semifinal. Every time he has reached the semifinals here he has gone on to win the title. He has an 18-10 win-loss record in his 28 previous Grand Slam semifinals:

 

Grand Slam Semifinal Result Eventual finish
2007 Roland Garros l. Rafael Nadal 75 64 62  
2007 Wimbledon l. Nadal 36 61 4-1 ret. (infected toe blister)  
2007 US Open d. David Ferrer 64 64 63 Runner-up
2008 Australian Open d. Roger Federer 75 63 76(5) Winner
2008 Roland Garros l. Nadal 64 62 76(3)  
2008 US Open l. Federer 63 57 75 62  
2009 US Open l. Federer 76(3) 75 75  
2010 Wimbledon l. Tomas Berdych 63 76(9) 63  
2010 US Open d. Federer 57 61 57 62 75 Runner-up
2011 Australian Open d. Federer 76(3) 75 64 Winner
2011 Roland Garros l. Federer 76(5) 63 36 76(5)  
2011 Wimbledon d. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 76(4) 62 67(9) 63 Winner
2011 US Open d. Federer 67(7) 46 63 62 75 Winner
2012 Australian Open d. Andy Murray 63 36 67(4) 61 75 Winner
2012 Roland Garros d. Federer 64 75 63 Runner-up
2012 Wimbledon l. Federer 63 36 64 63  
2012 US Open d. Ferrer 26 61 64 62 Runner-up
2013 Australian Open d. Ferrer 62 62 61 Winner
2013 Roland Garros l. Nadal 64 36 61 67(3) 97  
2013 Wimbledon d. Juan Martin del Potro 75 46 76(2) 67(6) 63 Runner-up
2013 US Open d. Stan Wawrinka 26 76(4) 36 63 64 Runner-up
2014 Roland Garros d. Ernests Gulbis 63 63 36 63 Runner-up
2014 Wimbledon d. Grigor Dimitrov 64 36 76(2) 76(7) Winner
2014 US Open l. Kei Nishikori 64 16 76(4) 63  
2015 Australian Open d. Wawrinka 76(1) 36 64 46 60 Winner
2015 Roland Garros d. Murray 63 63 57 57 61 Runner-up
2015 Wimbledon d. Richard Gasquet 76(2) 64 64 Winner
2015 US Open d. Marin Cilic 60 61 62 Winner
2016 Australian Open v. Federer ??

 

  • Djokovic is bidding to record his 56th match-win at the Australian Open and equal Stefan Edberg in 2nd place on the list for most Australian Open match-wins in the Open Era.
Player Win-loss
Roger Federer
Stefan Edberg

Novak Djokovic

80-12
56-10

55-6

Andre Agassi 48-5
Ivan Lendl 48-10

 

  • The last time the top seed failed to reach the Australian Open final was in 2011, when Nadal lost in the quarterfinals.

 

  • Djokovic has won 15 of his last 16 Tour-level matches against Top 10 opposition. His only defeat in that time came to No. 3 today’s opponent in the round-robin at the 2015 ATP World Tour Finals. He has won 12 of his last 13 matches against Top 10 opposition at the Grand Slams, with his only defeat in that time coming against No. 9 Stan Wawrinka in the 2015 Roland Garros final.

 

  • Djokovic has reached his 29th Grand Slam semifinal and taken sole ownership of 3rd place on the list for the most Grand Slam semifinal appearances in the Open Era.

 

                                                 Grand Slam semifinals reached (Open Era)

Player No. of GS semifinals
Roger Federer 39
Jimmy Connors 31
Novak Djokovic 29
Ivan Lendl 28
Andre Agassi 26

 

  • Djokovic has reached his 6th Australian Open semifinal and moved into joint-4th position on the table for most appearances in the last 4 here in the Open Era.

 

               Australian Open semifinals reached (Open Era)

Player No. of AO semifinals
Roger Federer 12
Stefan Edberg 8
Ivan Lendl 7
Andre Agassi

Novak Djokovic

Andy Murray

6

6

6

Pete Sampras

Mats Wilander

5

5

                                                            

  • Djokovic’s victory over Simon in the round of 16 here extended his 5-set match-winning streak to 6-matches. He hasn’t lost a 5-set match since he was defeated by Wawrinka in the quarterfinals here in 2014. He has a 26-8 five-set win-loss record and a 5-2 win-loss record in 5-set matches at Melbourne Park.

 

  • Djokovic is on a 13-match winning streak in Tour-level matches. He hasn’t lost a match since he was defeated by today’s opponent in the round-robin at the 2015 ATP World Tour Finals. He still went on to win the title there as well as at Doha. His longest winning streak came in 2011, when he won 43 matches in a row.

 

  • Djokovic is on an 19-match Grand Slam winning streak. He has not lost a Grand Slam match since he was defeated by Wawrinka in the 2015 Roland Garros final. His longest Grand Slam match-winning streak is 27, which took in the titles at 2011 Wimbledon, the 2011 US Open and the 2012 Australian Open, and a runner-up finish at 2012 Roland Garros.

 

  • Djokovic is looking to equal Roy Emerson’s record of 6 Australian titles and become the 10th man in history to win 6 titles at any Grand Slam event [see Preview pages 1-2].

 

  • Last year here Djokovic won his 5th Australian Open title, defeating Murray 76(5) 67(4) 63 60 in the final. He also won the titles here in 2008 (d. Tsonga), 2011 (d. Murray), 2012 (d. Nadal) and 2013 (d. Murray). This is his 12th Australian Open and his 45th Grand Slam overall.

 

  • Elsewhere at the majors in 2015, Djokovic won the titles at Wimbledon and the US Open, defeating today’s opponent on both occasions to take his major total to 10. He also reached the final at Roland Garros, losing to Wawrinka. He became the 3rd player in the Open Era to reach all 4 Grand Slam finals in a calendar year after Rod Laver (1969) and Federer (2006-07, 2009).

 

  • Djokovic won 11 titles in 15 finals in 2015 and in so doing finished the year with a prize money haul of $21,592,125. He finished the year ranked No. 1 for the 4th time after winning his 4th consecutive ATP World Tour Finals crown.

 

  • Djokovic warmed up for the 2016 Australian Open by winning his 60th career singles title at Doha (d. Nadal).

 

  • Djokovic started working with 2-time Australian Open champion Boris Becker in 2014. He has also been coached by Marian Vajda since June 2006. His wider team includes physios Miljan Amanovic and Gebhard Phil-Gritsch.

 

  • 4-time Australian Open champion FEDERER is bidding to become the 3rd different man in the Open Era to reach the Australian Open final aged 34 or over. At 34 years 176 days, he would become the 4th oldest Australian Open finalist overall:

                                       Oldest men to reach Australian Open final (Open Era)

Age Player Year
37 years 62 days Ken Rosewall 1972
36 years 306 days Mal Anderson 1972
36 years 73 days Ken Rosewall 1971
34 years 176 days Roger Federer 2016??

N.B. Player ages are calculated at the end of the tournament

 

  • Federer is also looking to reach his 28th Grand Slam final, and extend the all-time record that he took sole ownership of at 2009 Wimbledon. Federer has a 27-11 win-loss record in Grand Slam semifinals and a 5-6 win-loss record in semifinals here:

Grand Slam finals reached (all-time)

Player No. of GS finals
Roger Federer 28??
Rafael Nadal 20
Novak Djokovic

Ivan Lendl

19??

19

 

  • Federer is looking to record his 10th victory over a player ranked No. 1. His most recent victory over a No. 1 ranked player came against today’s opponent in the round-robin at the 2015 ATP World Tour Finals. He has a 9-18 win-loss record against No. 1 players overall and a 1-7 record against them at the majors. His only victory over a No. 1 player at a Grand Slam came against today’s opponent in the semifinals at 2012 Wimbledon.

 

Federer’s win-loss record v No. 1 ranked players

Novak Djokovic 5-10
Rafael Nadal 2-6
Lleyton Hewitt 1-3
Andy Roddick 1-0
Juan Carlos Ferrero 0-1

 

  • Federer is looking to win his first semifinal here since 2010. Six of his 11 Grand Slam semifinal defeats have come at Melbourne Park:

 

                               Federer’s Australian Open semifinal appearances

Grand Slam Opponent Result
2004 Juan Carlos Ferrero Won 64 61 64
2005 Marat Safin Lost 57 64 57 76(6) 97
2006 Nicolas Kiefer Won 63 57 60 62
2007 Andy Roddick Won 64 60 62
2008 Novak Djokovic Lost 75 63 76(5)
2009 Andy Roddick Won 62 75 75
2010 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Won 62 63 62
2011 Novak Djokovic Lost 76(3) 75 64
2012 Rafael Nadal Lost 67(5) 62 76(5) 64
2013 Andy Murray Lost   64 67(5) 63 67(2) 62
2014 Rafael Nadal Lost 76(4) 63 63
2016 Novak Djokovic ???

 

  • Federer has reached his 12th Australian Open semifinal and taken sole occupancy of 2nd place on the list for the most semifinals reached at any one Grand Slam event.

 

No. of semifinals reached at any one Grand Slam event (Open Era)

Player No. of semifinals
Jimmy Connors 14 (US Open)
Roger Federer 12 (Australian Open)
Jimmy Connors 11 (Wimbledon)

 

  • Federer has reached his 39th Grand Slam semifinal and extended the record he broke at 2012 Wimbledon for the most Grand Slam semifinal appearances:

                                                 Grand Slam semifinals reached (Open Era)

Player No. of GS semifinals
Roger Federer 39
Jimmy Connors 31
Novak Djokovic 29
Ivan Lendl 28
Andre Agassi 26

 

  • Federer is bidding to record his 81st match-win at Melbourne Park and extend his win-loss record at the Australian Open, his most successful Grand Slam event in terms of matches won.

 

  Titles won Win-loss record Finals reached
Australian Open 4 80-12 6??
Roland Garros 1 65-16 5
Wimbledon 7 79-10 10
US Open 5 78-11 7

 

  • At 34 years 176 days, Federer has become the oldest man to reach the semifinals at the Australian Open since Colin Dibley (aged 35 years 105 days) in 1979. He is the oldest man to reach the semifinals at a Grand Slam since Andre Agassi (aged 35 years 135 days) at the 2005 US Open.

 

  • Federer recorded his 300th career Grand Slam match-win in the 3rd round here. Federer has won more Grand Slam matches than any other player in the Open Era. Connors is his closest rival, with 233 Grand Slam match-wins. He is looking to avoid suffering his 50th Grand Slam defeat today.

              

Most Open Era Grand Slam match-wins

Roger Federer 302-49
Jimmy Connors 233-49
Andre Agassi 224-53
Ivan Lendl 222-49
Novak Djokovic 212-34
Pete Sampras 203-38
Rafael Nadal 198-30

Active players in bold. (Through quarterfinals at the 2016 Australian Open)

 

  • Federer is looking to close the gap on Martina Navratilova for the most Grand Slam singles match-wins by a man or woman. Navratilova has a 306-49 win-loss record at the Grand Slams, ahead of Chris Evert (299-37) and Serena Williams (290-40).

 

  • Last year here Federer fell in the 3rd round to Andreas Seppi, who brought an end to his 22-match winning streak against Italian opposition. It was the first time he had failed to reach the semifinals at the Australian Open since 2003 and his earliest exit in Melbourne since he fell in the 3rd round in 2001 (l. Arnaud Clement).

 

  • Federer is looking to become the 3rd man in history to win 5 Australian Open singles titles after Roy Emerson (6) and today’s opponent (5) [see Preview page 1].

 

  • At 34 years 176 days, Federer is looking to become the oldest man to win a Grand Slam title since Andres Gimeno won 1972 Roland Garros aged 34 years 306 days. He is also looking to become the oldest man to win the Australian Open since Ken Rosewall, who was 37 years 62 days when he lifted the title in 1972.

 

  • Elsewhere in Grand Slam play in 2015 he reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros (l. Stan Wawrinka) and finished as runner-up to today’s opponent at both Wimbledon and the US Open.

 

  • This is Federer’s 67th major appearance and his 65th straight Grand Slam event. He is in 2nd place on the list for the most Grand Slams played in the Open Era behind Fabrice Santoro (70) [see Preview pages 4-5].

 

  • Federer warmed up for the Australian Open by reaching the final as top seed at Brisbane (l. Milos Raonic). It was his 3rd straight final in Brisbane and his 2nd runner-up finish at the tournament in 3 years.

 

  • Federer won 6 titles in 2015 – his highest tally since 2012 – at Brisbane (d. Raonic), Dubai (d. today’s opponent), Istanbul (d. Pablo Cuevas), Halle (d. Seppi), Cincinnati-1000 (d. today’s opponent) and Basel (d. Nadal).

 

  • Federer has won 4 titles here – in 2004 (d. Marat Safin 76 64 62), 2006 (d. Marcos Baghdatis 57 75 60 62), 2007
    (d. Fernando Gonzalez 76 64 64) and 2010 (d. Andy Murray 63 64 76).

 

  • Federer is a 17-time Grand Slam singles champion. His last title at a major came at 2012 Wimbledon
    (d. Murray). He was one of 7 Grand Slam champions to start in this year’s men’s singles main draw.

 

  • Federer is coached by 2006 Australian Open quarterfinalist Ivan Ljubicic and Severin Luthi.

 *All statistics come from the Grand Slam Media at the Australian Open

 

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