- US Open 2021: Daniil Medvedev won his first Grand Slam trophy on September 12, 2021, after defeating World No. 1 Novak Djokovic with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win in the 2021 US Open men’s singles final at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York.
- The match lasted for two hours and sixteen minutes. Russia’s World No.2 Medvedev ended Djokovic’s dream of sweeping the US, French, Australian Open, and Wimbledon in the same year for the first time since 1969.
- With the 25-years-old Medvedev winning the US Open 2021 Grand Slam title, Djokovic lost his opportunity to join the league of legends Don Budge (1938) and Rod Laver (1962, 1969) who won all four Slams in a single season (in the same year).
- Instead, Djokovic became the 3rd man after Jack Crawford (1933) and Lew Hoad (1956) who won the first trio of Grand Slams in a year and made it to the US Open final.
- If Djokovic had won the US Open 2021 final, the 34-year-old Serbian World No. 1 would have made the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s tennis since 1969 by sweeping all major titles in a single season and claiming the record-breaking 21st major men’s singles titles of his career.
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