December is a month to take stock, to distribute prizes and recognitions, to choose the most outstanding of the course. Who has been the Best Athlete of 2021? is a classic question around this time. A candidate who has already become a fixture is Novak Djokovic, that has returned to agglutinate merits for the reign. Nole has won three greats this year, Australia, Roland Garros and Wimbledon, and only his defeat in the final of the US Open prevented him from completing the Grand Slam in a natural cycle and tiebreaker at the top with Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer, with whom it is still equal to 20. It has also reached the figure of 37 Masters 1.000, which puts you ahead of Nadal. And the year has ended like world number one for the seventh time, thereby breaking the record he shared with Pete Sampras. He could not finish off other challenges such as Olympic gold in Such and the Davis Cup in Madrid, but it is not bad that he fails in something to confirm his human character, which he also has. Djokovic he is a very human champion. With its strengths and weaknesses.
In the trophy cabinets of Novak Djokovic will also wear from this year the AS award, an award that is on the way to becoming a classic of the sport, which today will fulfill its 15th edition in a Gala at Palace in which nole no has been able to be present, but he did have the deference to pick it up a few days before, during the Davis. The sculpture of Mariscal distinguishes the wonderful year from the Serbian, but it is also the reward for a brilliant career closely linked to Spain for his duels with Nadal. The Classic most repeated of the racket. Djokovic In this way, he became part of an illustrious list of honors where his own Nadal, in a contest that will have a lot of tennis presence, with Paula Badosa Y Carlos Alcaraz placeholder image among the winners, and with Manolo santana in memory.