Djokovic is one of just three men to have racked up a century of titles. <\/p>\n
The Serb still needs two to equal Roger Federer’s 103, while Jimmy Connors heads the list with 109.<\/p>\n
It looked unlikely that he could add to his tally as 23-year-old Musetti’s tireless running and accurate serving helped him to the opening set. <\/p>\n
But after recovering to force a decider, Djokovic toughed out the victory, trading service breaks in the 10th and 11th games of the final set before closing it out with a love hold. <\/p>\n
“It was an incredible battle, I just, I don’t know,” said the top seed who, at 38 years and five months, became the oldest tournament winner since Australia’s Ken Rosewall won in Hong Kong in 1977 aged 43. <\/p>\n
“Three hours. [It was] a gruelling match physically, super demanding. Lorenzo played really well. It could have been anybody’s game, anybody’s match so congrats to him for an amazing performance and I just feel very proud of myself to get through this one.”<\/p>\n
It was Djokovic’s second title of 2025, having won on the clay of Geneva in May, while Musetti continues his wait for a maiden title after losing in six finals over the last two seasons. <\/p>\n
In a double blow, the Italian failed to claim the win he needed to make the ATP Tour Finals in Turin, with Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime taking the final slot. <\/p>\n
Djokovic, meanwhile, had already earned his place and has been drawn in a group with world number two Carlos Alcaraz, American Taylor Fritz and Australia’s Alex de Minaur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Djokovic is one of just three men to have racked up a century of titles. The Serb still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-271705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}