The first set, the key to Djokovic's dominance in tennis

The figures attest to Novak Djokovic's dominance in the world of tennis. The Serbian has managed to join the fight with Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal to see who is the best tennis player in history and the figures show the leap he has taken in recent years.

As ATP statistics show, Novak Djokovic wins many of his matches for his effectiveness in the first set. These data indicate that the Serbian wins the highest percentage of games in the first set after comparing the records of 442 players on the ATP circuit between 1991 and 2020.

The numbers impress Djokovic in the first sets impress. The Serbian has won 5,990 of the 10,053 games he has played in the first set throughout his career, with a percentage of 59.58%, which has allowed him to take advantage in many games, while endorsing a hard mental blow to his rivals, forcing them to overcome an adverse marker.

These figures improve even if only hard court matches are taken into account, since Novak Djokovic is the only tennis player to exceed 60% of games won in the first set. A percentage that the Serbian exceeds in three Masters 1,000 tournaments that are played on this surface: Shanghai (62.3%), Miami (61.51%) and Indian Wells (60.94%).

Along with Djokovic, only two other players have managed to win more than 58% of the games they played in the first set: the Spanish Rafa Nadal, with 59.43% and the Swiss Roger Federer with 59.03%. In fact, Djokovic, Nadal and Federer are far ahead of other tennis legends like Andre Agassi (57.53%), Pete Sampras (57.5%) and Stefan Edberg (56.83%). Figures that Djokovic hopes to maintain and even improve in a season in which he still does not know the defeat in the official game while adding 18 victories in as many games.