SIXTH SENSE: NOVAK DJOKOVIC GETS HIS 6TH AUSTRALIAN OPEN CROWN....via@sportsbywest3

WORLD NUMBER ONE NOVAK DJOKOVIC HAS SUCESSFULLY DEFENDED HIS AUSTRALIAN OPEN CROWN after defeating world number two Andy Murray in three straight sets winning 6-1 7-5 7-6 (7-3).

 

 

Novak Djokovic has now won 11 grand slam titles with 6 of them from Australia, and can set his eyes firmly on Roger Federer's grand slam record of 17.  He would have to move past players like Pete Samparas and Rafael Nadal before he can get to Roger Federer.

 

andy murray has won two grand slam titles, and in both finals, he beat novak djokovic, so one can easily forgive him for hoping despite the rich vein of form that novak djokovic is in and the fact that novak has beaten murray in 9 out of their last 10 meetings before Sunday's final.

 

 

 

The dominant Serb also extended his Grand Slam winning streak to 21 matches, and has not lost a match at the majors since he was defeated by Stan Wawrinka in last year's French Open final.

 

"I feel like I've been here before," Murray said in his on-court speech.
"First, I'd like to congratulate Novak. Six Australian Opens is an incredible feat and also what he's done in the last year or so has been incredible consistency, so well done to him and all of his team.

Despite facing an early break point in his opening service, Djokovic soon found his rhythm and broke Murray's serve twice to claim the opening set in 30 minutes.

Djokovic served out with an ace to seal the title, and when they met at the net, Murray had two words for his conqueror: "Too good.

It was another big statement from Djokovic against his major rivals after beating Rafael Nadal 6-1 6-2 at Doha and convincingly dismantling Roger Federer in the Melbourne semi-finals, all in this same month January.

BAD STAT FOR ANDY MURRAY

Murray now has the unwanted statistic of becoming only the second man in the post-1968 Open Era to lose five Grand Slam finals at any one major.


Ivan Lendl, Murray's former coach, lost five finals at the US Open in 1982-1984 and 1988-1989, before winning at Flushing Meadows in 1985-1987


The only grand slam Novak is yet to win is the French open, which means he is yet to achieve a career grand slam, while he also has the chance to win a gold medal at the Olympics in brazil this year.

Rafael Nadal is one player who has completed a golden career grand slam.

Roger Federer has completed a career grand slam, but with Olympics silver singles medal.

Andy Murray won the singles Olympics gold medal in 2012.