Novak Djokovic is arguably the past decade’s most dominant player on the ATP tour. If you’re an opponent, the chances of beating him are very slim when he’s in full flow. Despite this, there was one time when the unthinkable turned into a reality. Jurgen Melzer, a former Austrian and experienced doubles player, recently bragged about his unbeatable Novak Djokovic record, which became the highlight of his singles career.

Novak Djokovic had a challenging year full of novel situations and emotions. Earlier this year, he could not participate in the Australian Open because of not getting vaccinated. He was then eliminated from the French Open by Rafael Nadal. However, winning his 21st Grand Slam title at Wimbledon was a bright point.

Jurgen Melzer raves about his remarkable ‘Novak Djokovic record’

During one of his recent appearances in The ATP Tennis Radio Podcast, the former Austrian tennis star Jurgen Melzer reflected on a long and successful career that saw him compete at the highest level in both singles and doubles.

While recounting the highlights of his career, Melzer went on to shed some light on his unimaginable record involving Novak Djokovic. He said, “Well, up to today, actually, I’m still the only guy to beat Novak from being two sets to love down, and it’s still getting a lot of tweets once Novak is two sets to love up, and he loses his third set. I have a lot of mentions done.”

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The 41-year-old Austrian further said, “The last player who did, or the only player who did… It’s great, and it’s for me. For Novak, it was probably one match, but for me, it’s the match. And I just realized also after that match, like, okay, I can beat those guys. I can compete with them. Maybe not on an everyday basis. But on a good day, I’m able to beat those guys.”

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Talking about Jurgen Melzer’s record, it was back in 2010 when he defeated Djokovic at the French Open after losing the first two sets. The final score was 36 26 62 76 64 in favor of the Austrian. To this day, no one else has come back from two sets down to beat Djokovic. An impressive feat indeed.

Jurgen Melzer’s career numbers and his head-to-head record against Djokovic 

Over the course of his career, he was widely recognized as one of the top players to have never made it past the third round of a major championship. Nonetheless, he finally broke through in the 2010 French Open, where he reached the tournament’s semifinals.

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Talking about the head-to-head record with the Serb, the two have played against each other 4 times; Djokovic won 3 of those and maintained a 75% win percentage.