{"id":199222,"date":"2025-10-14T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199222\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:00:10","slug":"hes-the-player-who-stunned-novak-djokovic-at-the-french-open-but-never-managed-a-win-at-any-other-grand-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199222\/","title":{"rendered":"He’s the player who stunned Novak Djokovic at the French Open but never managed a win at any other Grand Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Novak Djokovic has 24 Grand Slam titles to his name, and the four major tournaments have been where he\u2019s played his best tennis over the years. <\/p>\n

When it comes to the major that has proved least successful for Djokovic, it\u2019s the French Open<\/a>, with the Serbian winning just three times at Roland Garros<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In 2025, Jannik Sinner<\/a> beat Djokovic<\/a> at the clay-court Grand Slam and losing to the player who was the world number one at the time is no mean feat. <\/p>\n

However, it hasn\u2019t always been that way and in 2018, Djokovic found himself on the wrong end of one of the biggest shocks of his career at the Paris-based Grand Slam. <\/p>\n

\"NovakPhoto by Jean Catuffe\/Getty ImagesMarco Cecchinato stunned Novak Djokovic in 2018<\/p>\n

Cecchinato was a bit of a slow burner on the ATP<\/a> Tour, and it took him a long time to adapt from the Challenger circuit onto the main tour. <\/p>\n

Cecchinato entered four Grand Slam events prior to his run to the semifinal in 2018, without winning a single match, making this particular run all the more incredible. <\/p>\n

Cecchinato has defeated Marius Copil, Marco Trungelliti, Pablo Carreno Busta and David Goffin to set up the last eight clash with Djokovic. <\/p>\n

At this point in Djokovic\u2019s career, he had claimed one French Open title, winning in 2016 and also had 11 other Grand Slam titles to his name. <\/p>\n

Cecchinato didn\u2019t just stun Djokovic but he absolutely thrashed him in four sets, to leave the tennis world shocked and have Rafael Nadal cruising towards another Roland Garros crown. <\/p>\n

However, the time in the sun didn\u2019t last long for Cecchinato\u2026<\/p>\n

What happened to Marco Cecchinato\u2019s career<\/p>\n

In truth, it was hard for him to live up to this performance, and this was as good as it got for Cecchinato on the professional tour. <\/p>\n

Right now, the Italian is still scratching around on the Challenger circuit and has a world ranking of number 380 with the player now 33-years-old. <\/p>\n

Remarkably, Cecchinato entered the other three Grand Slam events a combined 17 times and never managed to get past the first round at any of them. <\/p>\n

Cecchinato did get to round three of the French Open on two other occasions, but his world ranking started to slip badly after reaching a summit of number 16 in 2019. <\/p>\n

The right-handed player has made around $5 million out of playing tennis, but given that he\u2019s proved a bit of a one-hit wonder with this win over Djokovic, Cecchinato might look back at his playing career with a tinge of regret. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Novak Djokovic has 24 Grand Slam titles to his name, and the four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6766,101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-199222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-novak-djokovic","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}