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Sunday, June 5, 2016

Djokovic wins first French Open, 12th major, completes career Slam


Seldom, if ever, has a player made the brilliant look so businesslike. Ask Novak Djokovic to hit a winner for your life and he would most likely land it plumb on the baseline. Have the temerity to subject him to a 34-shot rally and he would be sure to raise you one of 35. He is a compelling human backboard, a bionic man. And fairly soon he could sit alone atop the Mount Olympus of his sport.
Once Roger Federer's mark of 17 major triumphs looked impossible to emulate but Djokovic, all four Grand Slam titles safely banked in his apartment in Monte Carlo, could have done so by the end of next year. The only factor that could plausibly deny him is injury. Ominously, though, the longer Djokovic lasted in his latest eclipse of Andy Murray, the more he acquired the sheen of a man burnished by a month's break in the Seychelles.