Djokovic, Sabalenka Named ITF World Champions

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, December 15, 2023
  
The 2023 season is within the rear-view mirror, however Novak Djokovic continues his championship roll. 

World No. 1 Djokovic earned males’s ITF World Champion honors for a record-extending eighth time.

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Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka was named girls’s ITF World Champion for the primary time.

It was a 12 months that noticed Djokovic seize three of the 4 Grand Slam championships—Australian Open, Roland Garros and US Open—gather his file seventh ATP Finals crown, win an ATP-best seven match titles and eclipse 400 weeks as world No. 1.

The 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic practically pulled off the primary males’s calendar Grand Slam since Rod Laver in 1969 bowing to Carlos Alcaraz in a dramatic Wimbledon five-set last.

It was a monumental season for Sabalenka, who out-dueled Elena Rybakina in an amazing three-set battle to win her maiden main on the Australian Open. Sabalenka went on to rise to world No. 1 for the primary time.

The big-hitting Belarusian reached the US Open last and held a one-set lead over Coco Gauff earlier than the American teenager, exhorted by 23,000 loud followers in Arthur Ashe Stadium, rallied to win her first Grand Slam.

Photo credit score: Aryna Sabalenka Instagram