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Novak Djokovic is the tennis player with the most Grand Slam wins, 24.
Serbia’s star tennis player Novak Djokovic has claimed that he was poisoned in Australia in January 2022. He has made this claim before the start of the first Grand Slam Australian Open of the year. Australian Open 2025 will start from January 12.
Djokovic was barred from participating in the Australian Open in 2022 due to not getting the Covid-19 vaccine. He had given wrong information in the travel documents before the Australian Open 2022. For this he was detained in Melbourne. After this his visa was canceled and sent back from Australia. He was lodged in a hotel in Melbourne during the legal proceedings. He says that it was here that he was poisoned.
24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic said while talking to GQ
I had some health problems and I realized that some food I was fed in that hotel in Melbourne was laced with poison. I realized a few things when I came back to Serbia. I never told anyone this publicly, but it turned out that I had very high heavy metal levels in my body. I had lead in my body, very high levels of lead and mercury.
Djokovic has 24 Grand Slams Djokovic is the first player to win 24 Grand Slams. Djokovic won his first Grand Slam in the form of Australian Open in 2008. He won it 10 times till 2023. Djokovic has won the French Open 3 times and the US Open 4 times. He is also a 7-time Wimbledon champion.
5th player to win Career Golden Slam Djokovic has also won the Golden Slam. He is the 5th player to do so. Before him, only Spain’s Rafael Nadal, America’s Serena Williams, America’s Andre Agassi and Germany’s Steffi Graf have won the Career Golden Slam.
In tennis, the person who wins all four Grand Slams and Olympic gold is considered a Golden Slam winner.