As Djokovic gets set for Adria Tour, a look at his 10 best tour events

This weekend, Novak Djokovic is kicking off his Adria Tour series of exhibition events on home soil in Belgrade—but the Serbian capital isn’t the only city in the world where he feels at home.

Here are the World No. 1’s 10 best tournaments, according to titles, win-loss record and more:

The Masters 1000 event in Canada bounces back and forth between Toronto and Montreal every year, but Djokovic excels no matter which city it’s in. He’s a four-time champion there—twice in Montreal in 2007 and 2011, and twice in Toronto in 2012 and 2016—and he reached one more final in Montreal in 2015, finishing runner-up to Andy Murray. He has a 37-7 career record at the event.

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Like in Canada, Djokovic is a four-time champion at the Masters 1000 event in Rome—in 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2015—but he’s also reached another five finals in the Italian capital in 2009, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2019. That means he’s been in the final nine of the last 12 years—something even the King of Clay, Rafael Nadal, hasn’t done. The Serb has an impressive 50-9 career record in Rome.

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Djokovic has won the next five tournaments on the list five times each, but with varying degrees of dominance—and the first of those five is the Masters 1000 event in Paris, where the Serb lifted the trophy in 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2019. He’s the only five-time winner in the tournament’s history. He made one more final in 2018, finishing runner-up to Karen Khachanov, and he’s 37-8 at the event.

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Like Paris, Djokovic has won the 500-level event in Dubai five times—in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2020—and reached one more final in 2015, falling to Roger Federer. But he’s 41-6 at the event, slightly better than the 37-8 in the French capital. Incidentally, the Serb’s win in Dubai this year was part of the last week of ATP events before the coronavirus pandemic suspended the season.

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A 19-year-old Djokovic reached his first Masters 1000 final at Indian Wells in 2007, falling to Nadal, and since then he’s become one of the greatest players in the tournament’s history—with five titles he’s tied with Federer for the record, conquering the desert in 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016. He has a 50-9 career record in Indian Wells, which—coincidentally—is also his career record in Rome.

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Not only does Djokovic have a career Slam, he’s also won the next-most prestigious event on the calendar, the ATP Finals—and five times, too, winning it in Shanghai in 2008 and at the O2 in London four years in a row from 2012 to 2015. No one else has ever won the season-ending event four years in a row. He’s also a two-time runner-up in 2016 and 2018 and has a 36-14 career win-loss record.

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It may not be his best major, but he’s been one of the best players at Wimbledon in recent years, winning it five times in 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019. He has a 70-12 career record at the event, and he’s won 34 of his last 36 matches—one of the two losses in that stretch was a retirement, too, against Tomas Berdych in the 2017 quarterfinals (due to an elbow injury that ended his season).

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The Serb is dangerous in Indian Wells, but he’s even more dangerous in Miami—he’s won it six times, capturing his first Masters 1000 title there as a 19-year-old in 2007 and another five times in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016. He won 30 of 31 matches there at one point and is 44-7 overall. He’s also pulled off the Indian Wells-Miami doubles an incredible four times in 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

“Every year I come back to Miami, I do go through those memories from back in 2007, the first Masters I won,” he said after his last triumph at the event in 2016. “It opened a lot of doors for me, gave me a lot of self-belief. I started to realize that I’m able to win the big trophies and beat the best players in the world. So of course this is a particularly good place for me to come back to every year.”

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Though most of his best events are at the Masters 1000 level or higher, Djokovic has quietly put together one of the greatest single-tournament records at the 500-level tournament in Beijing. He’s not only a six-time champion in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, but those are the only six times he’s played there—he’s never lost a match in the Chinese capital, going 29-0, and 58-3 in sets.

After winning Beijing for the fifth time, Djokovic was asked whether beating him at the event is the ultimate challenge in tennis. “I just do what I have to do and try to win as many matches as I can in any tournament,” he said. “But here, particularly, there is this streak going on. Of course I want to keep it going for as long as possible. And to be able to win it without dropping a set is pretty amazing.

“But, I mean, still Rafa at the French, a Grand Slam, is a higher category compared to this one.”

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Djokovic has utterly dominated the first major of the year throughout his career—the 17-time Grand Slam champion has won almost half of his Grand Slams at the Australian Open alone, winning it eight times in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020. He’s won more Australian Opens than any other man in tennis history, and he’s one of only three men in tennis history to win the same major eight or more times, alongside the other two members of the Big 3—Nadal (12 French Opens) and Federer (eight Wimbledons). He has a sensational 75-8 career record in Melbourne.

Even scarier, he gets even tougher to beat as the stakes get higher—once the Serb gets past the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, he’s a flawless 8-0 in semifinals and 8-0 in finals.

“I’ve had the privilege to win this tournament eight times,” Djokovic said after winning it this year. “To start the season with a Grand Slam win significantly boosts your confidence, and your expectations are quite high for the rest of the season. But whatever happens, this season is already successful.”

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