Djokovic has never won Rome in his winning RG years

[serbiavic]

Probably somewhat of a coincidence due to Nadal, but Djokovic won Rome 6 times without a RG win. Why is this?
Even more interesting is that out of the 11 clay Masters titles, only one coincided with a RG win (2016 Madrid).
If Djokovic wins a clay Masters, 91% of the time he will not win RG, to put it in perspective.

 

[Jonesy]

I don't know, all i know is that he should skip the clay masters from now on.

 

[Kralingen]

Maybe he burns himself out in Rome too close to RG and that’s the reason why. Should consider skipping all clay season.

 

[Rafa4LifeEver]

2022 or even 2021 Rafa would've wiped the floor with him again this year, no offence intended.

 

[nolefam_2024]

He has only 3 years in which he won Roland Garros. Out of these 3, at year 2023 he absolutely only aims for slams. So that is gone.

Left 2 years..

 

[The Blond Blur]

Just goes to show how difficult/special it is to pull off. Clay is the surface which has the longest rallies meaning you have to have one hell of a gas tank to pull it off. The fact that RAFA dominated it like no one else (or any surface for that matter) will probably be the most amazing record for me personally.

 

[Deleted member 629564]

Madrid, RG, and Cincy trophies in the same year:

Federer 1 (2009)
Nadal 1 (2013)
Djokovic 0

Another proof that Fedal >> Djokovic in the GOAT race.

 

[MichaelNadal]

Just goes to show how difficult/special it is to pull off. Clay is the surface which has the longest rallies meaning you have to have one hell of a gas tank to pull it off. The fact that RAFA dominated it like no one else (or any surface for that matter) will probably be the most amazing record for me personally.

Exactly. The fact that he would win RG every year AFTER all the work he put in during the clay season is absolutely mind-boggling.

 

[LaVie en Rose]

I don't know, all i know is that he should skip the clay masters from now on.

Where is he supposed to prepare for RG? Munich, Geneva ? Or you think from now on, he should skip RG federeresque like?

 

[Razer]

Nadal has won 1 RG + 2 Clay Masters in the same year a total of 9 times (05, 06, 07, 08, 10, 12, 13, 17, 18)
Muster has done it 1995 and Borg in 1974
Nobody else has done that, Djokovic would also have won it in 2011 but federer got a win in semis and ruined it, otherwise he had Nadal's number that year.

 

[Jonesy]

Where is he supposed to prepare for RG? Munich, Geneva ? Or you think from now on, he should skip RG federeresque like?

It was a joke.

 

[serbiavic]

Clay masters hurt chances for RG but HC masters help chances for other slams.

 

[Lauren_Girl']

Where is he supposed to prepare for RG? Munich, Geneva ? Or you think from now on, he should skip RG federeresque like?

Belgrade will be upgraded to ATP500 next year. He will definitely play it but maybe he should skip Madrid and/or Rome.

 

[BeatlesFan]

Where is he supposed to prepare for RG? Munich?

Forget about Munich. Holger's won it the last 2 years and we all know Djokovic is 0-2 against the Danish legend.

 

[LaVie en Rose]

Forget about Munich. Holger's won it the last 2 years and we all know Djokovic is 0-2 against the Danish legend.

Ah ok, nothing then

 

[cortadew]

2022 or even 2021 Rafa would've wiped the floor with him again this year, no offence intended.

Rafa in RG would wipe the floor with anyone to be honest and also Nole would have wiped the floor with Rafa in Australia if they had met in the 2022 final

 

[Lauren_Girl']

Forget about Munich. Holger's won it the last 2 years and we all know Djokovic is 0-2 against the Danish legend.

Correction, H2H is 2-1. Djokovic won their only Slam match.

Rune was down 5-2 40-0 (double break) against BVDZ in the final. Not exactly a legend of this tournament.

 

[Cortana]

Further proof that he should just play slams, the WTF and a couple of Masters.

 

[serbiavic]

Further proof that he should just play slams, the WTF and a couple of Masters.

What about HC masters though? They seem more helpful for tuning up for slams than clay masters.

 

[I Am Finnish]

Probably somewhat of a coincidence due to Nadal, but Djokovic won Rome 6 times without a RG win. Why is this?
Even more interesting is that out of the 11 clay Masters titles, only one coincided with a RG win (2016 Madrid).
If Djokovic wins a clay Masters, 91% of the time he will not win RG, to put it in perspective.

What it tell us?

 

[Hitman]

Forget about Munich. Holger's won it the last 2 years and we all know Djokovic is 0-2 against the Danish legend.

No, we don't know.

 

[SonnyT]

Good, he probably won't win another M1000 besides Shanghai and Bercy, two post-Slam tourneys.