Novak Djokovic owns 24 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any man in tennis history, and as of this week, the number is under live threat of becoming 25. The 39-year-old just survived the longest quarterfinal ever played at Wimbledon (five hours, fifteen minutes) to reach a record 15th semifinal at the All England Club, his 55th at the majors, and faces defending champion Jannik Sinner on Friday, two wins from a title that would break his tie with Margaret Court for the most singles majors ever won by anyone.
The 24 titles span 15 years, all four surfaces, three tennis eras, and every kind of final: five-set epics, straight-set demolitions, championship points saved, and the night in New York in 2023 when the all-time record arrived.
The chart below covers the full title-by-title list with every final, the breakdown by tournament, where 24 sits in history, and the live chase for #25. Take a look, then we’ll break it all down.
The list, read as a career
The 24 titles fall into three distinct acts. Act one is the outlier and the arrival: a first major at 20 in Melbourne (2008), then three years in the Federer-Nadal shadow before the 2011 detonation, three slams in a 70-6 season that announced a new best player alive, punctuated by the 2012 Australian Open final against Nadal, five hours and 53 minutes, still the longest major final ever contested.
Act two is the imperial middle: the 2014-16 run that ended with the 2016 French Open, completing the career Grand Slam and, more remarkably, making him the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four majors simultaneously. Act three is the resurrection economy: the 2018 return from elbow surgery, the 2019 Wimbledon final where he saved two championship points on Federer’s serve and won 13-12 in a fifth-set tiebreak, the 2021 near-calendar-slam, and finally the 2023 harvest, three majors at age 36, with #23 in Paris passing Nadal for the men’s record and #24 in New York tying Margaret Court for the most singles majors won by any human.
The records inside the record
What separates the 24 from every rival count is its shape. Ten Australian Opens is the most anyone has won at a single hard-court major; seven Wimbledons sit one behind Federer’s record eight; and the three French Opens make Djokovic the only man in history to win every major at least three times, a triple career Grand Slam earned partly by beating Nadal in Paris, the sport’s most protected fortress.
The finals ledger doubles as an era map: four wins over Nadal, four over Federer, five over Murray, plus Medvedev, Tsitsipas, and Thiem, meaning the record was built directly through the greatest generation of opponents tennis has produced, not around it. Add the 2024 Paris Olympic gold (completing the career Golden Slam, at 37, over Alcaraz) and the all-time marks in weeks at No. 1 and slam semifinals (55 and counting), and the argument for the list above being the greatest résumé in tennis history mostly writes itself.
#25, live from London
The number under the record has never been closer, or more contested. Djokovic reached Friday’s semifinal by winning the longest quarterfinal in Wimbledon history, a five-hour, fifteen-minute epic over Félix Auger-Aliassime settled in a final-set tiebreak, minutes before the 11 p.m. curfew, making him at 39 years and 51 days the second-oldest Wimbledon semifinalist of the Open Era behind Ken Rosewall in 1974, and extending his own records to 15 semifinals here and 107 match wins at the All England Club (a mark he took from Federer earlier in the fortnight). The obstacle is the sport’s present: defending champion and world No. 1 Jannik Sinner, who leads their rivalry 6-5, though Djokovic beat him in this January’s Australian Open semifinal, snapping a five-match skid against top-ranked players. Two wins deliver everything at once: the 25th major, the outright all-time singles record, and a Federer-tying eighth Wimbledon. This page updates through the weekend; the list above may need a new row by Sunday evening.
Final Word
Novak Djokovic’s Grand Slam titles, listed: 24 majors across 15 years, ten Australian Opens, seven Wimbledons, four US Opens, and three French, from the 2008 arrival in Melbourne through the 5h53m Nadal epic, the all-four-at-once Nole Slam, the two-championship-points escape against Federer, and the 2023 New York night that tied Margaret Court’s all-time mark. He’s two wins from making it 25 and standing alone this very weekend, at 39, one round after the longest quarterfinal Wimbledon has ever staged. The full table is above; keep a row warm.
The all-time leaderboard he’s about to break lives in most Grand Slam titles ever, the record he’d tie Federer for is in most Wimbledon titles, and the tiebreak format that decided his epic is in the final-set tiebreak, explained.