Ten facts on tomorrow’s French Open men’s final between Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka:
1- NOVAK DJOKOVIC (SERBIA)
- is bidding to win his ninth Grand Slam title and complete the career Grand Slam.
- He is looking to become just the eighth man in history to complete the career Grand Slam after Andre Agassi, Don Budge, Roy Emerson, Roger Federer, Rod Laver, Rafael Nadal and Fred Perry.
- Having won the 2015 Australian Open, Djokovic is looking to become the first man in 23 years to hold the first two legs of the calendar Grand Slam. Budge (1938) and Laver (1962, 1969) are the only two players to have achieved the calendar Grand Slam
- The Serb has an 8-7 win-loss record in his 15 previous Grand Slam finals and a 0-2 win-loss record in Roland Garros finals, losing to Nadal in 2012 and 2014.
- Djokovic is on a 28-match Tour-level winning streak. He has not lost a match since falling to Federer in the final at Dubai. He has a 41-2 win-loss record in 2015, with his only losses coming to Federer at Dubai and Ivo Karlovic in the quarterfinals at Doha. His longest winning streak came in 2011, when he recorded a 43-match winning streak.
- He is coached by three-time Roland Garros semi-finalist Boris Becker. He has also been coached by Marian Vajda since June 2006. His wider team includes physios Miljan Amanovic and Gebhard Phil-Gritsch.
8-STAN WAWRINKA (SWITZERLAND)
- is bidding to win his second grand slam title (he won the 2014 Australian Open) and his first at Roland Garros.
- The Swiss is bidding to become the second Swiss player – man or woman – in history to win Roland Garros after Roger Federer, who won the title in 2009. Three Swiss players in history have reached the final – Federer (2006-2009, 2011), Martina Hingis (1997, 1999) and Wawrinka.
- Wawrinka, who won the boys’ singles title in 2003, is bidding to become the first former Roland Garros boys’ champion to win the men’s title since Mats Wilander in 1988. He is the first former boys’ champion to reach the men’s final here since Guillermo Coria in 2004. Only five of the 68 different Roland Garros boys’ champions have gone on to win the men’s singles title.
- Aged 30 years 71 days, Wawrinka is bidding to become the oldest man to win Roland Garros since Andres Gomez (aged 30 years 103 days) in 1990. Just four men aged over 30 have won Roland Garros in the Open Era – Rod Laver, Andres Gimeno, Gomez and Ken Rosewall.
- He is coached by 2000 Roland Garros finalist Magnus Norman.
