Djokovic Gets Career Grand Slam; Positioned For Calendar One

Novak Djokovic completed his career Grand Slam today winning the French Open by crushing Andy Murray by the score of 3-6,6-1,6-2,6-4.  Murray took the first set handily as he was aggressive, attacking Novak’s second serve (he did that all match), and Djokovic looked really tight, making way too many unforced errors.  Murray had a break point in the first game of the second set and perhaps it would have been a different match if he had been able to convert; but he couldn’t. After that game, Djokovic took control and just dominated the match, serving well and moving Murray all over the court, and Murray seemed to run out of gas. Even the final set was not as close as the 6-4 score indicated, as Djokovic was up a couple of breaks before getting really tight as it became clear he was finally going to win the one Grand Slam title that had eluded him.

With the win today, Djokovic becomes the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time.  And now the pressure will really start to build on Novak, as it did for Serena Williams last year, as he will be the odds-on favorite to win Wimbledon and the US Open and complete the calendar Grand Slam.

I’ll have a full recap of the French Open later on.