Trophy Presentation | Novak Djokovic Wins 24th Grand Slam Title | 2023 US Open

Danielle, New York really does love you. We love your supreme athleticism, we love your humaneness, and we love your wit. Thanks for a great championship. And Novak, welcome back to New York. We really missed you. Happy to have you here to congratulate you on your 24th Grand Slam championship and fourth U.S. Open title. This has been a record-setting 2023 U.S. Open. I want to thank in particular the USTA staff for orchestrating such an incredible event and to thank you, the fans, because you make this stadium rock and you make the U.S. Open one of the greatest sporting events in the world. Let's continue to tennis because we now know that tennis is not only the healthiest sport on this planet, it increases longevity more than any other form of exercise. So here's to tennis and here's to you. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. Now let's hear from our finalist. He leads all players over the last five years on the hard courts in titles, finals, and wins. It's his third U.S. Open final in the last five years, Daniil Medvedev. I just read your numbers, including a title. Something about New York brings out the best in you. Why is that? Yeah, I mean, first of all, I want to ask Novak, what are you still doing here? Come on. I mean, no, jokes apart, I mean, what is it, our third final? Maybe not the last. Hope so. I mean, because you're probably going to be in many, in many more. I don't know when are you planning to slow down a little bit, but congrats to you and your team. I mean, 24. I feel like I have not a bad career and I have 20 titles. You have 24 grand slams. Wow. And so, yeah, congrats to you and your team. You guys are amazing. On the second note, I was here two years ago when I won, and I was like, what a great anniversary gift for my wife and stuff like this. And yeah, it's funny because dates usually change. But today, Sunday again is the anniversary. So I thought like, come on, do it one more time. But yeah. But your box is always with you. Your wife's fantastic. First person ever said you're going to be top 10. So a word for your box. Yeah, I want to thank Jill, Eric, Gaitan, first of all, for being already, I don't know, many years with me, eight years. So hopefully, guys, we can we can do one more time this step or maybe more than one more time. Oliver, Loic, Irina, David, I see there came down a little bit and everybody who my family and everyone who supports some of them are not here in New York. But everyone who supports me through this sometimes tough, sometimes easy, sometimes happy, sometimes sad journey. Thanks a lot, guys. For the two of you, you expected this. As you've told me, when you beat Novak, he comes back a better Novak. What does this match up? What does it come to mean to you in your career? I don't know, because from one side, I can say, and that's really I find this amazing that I beat Novak in the Grand Slam final. So that's probably at this moment the pinnacle of my career. And there's at the same time, maybe if he and Rafa didn't exist. Well, that's not possible. I played five finals against him and I only managed to win one. So I don't know if it's good or bad, but you know, he pushes me to be better. And I said this one time in Australia, but I'm gonna say it again because it's a different city, new people. First we met when I was probably 500 in the world and he was super kind to me, you know, nothing special, but he treated me as a normal person where I was surprised. I was like, wow, that's amazing, you know, and he still does. Nothing changed. 24 30 12 Grand Slams. Nothing changes. And I think that's that's something great about a person, you can say. Thank you for that. And thank you for the tennis. Last thing, guys. Thank you very much. I said it. I think what was it? 1.5 year ago, I said last but not least. Thanks again to my team this time. Last but not least. Thank you, guys, because you're amazing. I mean, this stadium is special. I said it. I mean, I came here one week before the tournament, and I was like, Wow, I want to play good here. I wanna I want to play good. I want to feel the energy of these people of this crowd, and I managed to do it. You know, I played good. I wanted to do better, but you guys are pushing me all the time. So I really hope that one more time in front of you, I can. I can hold this trophy again. Thank you. Congratulations. You were great, Daniel. Just great. On behalf of the U. S. T. A. Brian, if you would present Daniel Medvedev with the finalist Trophy and now let him here at your champion Novak Djokovic back 50 years ago at the U. S. Open. Margaret Court won number 24. Total different era. You've come through the golden era. You have 24. What does it mean? Well, I don't know where to start. It obviously means the world to me. You know, I'm kind of repeating myself, but I have to have to say it every time that I'm really living my childhood dream, you know, to compete the highest level in the sport that has given me and my family so much, you know, coming from very difficult circumstances and adversities during nineties couple of wars in our country and being able to push that through, especially for my parents, giving a lot of sacrifice to support me to play. I love you. Thank you so much to support me to play the sport that is very expensive sport at that time. Very expensive, not accessible, not affordable. But you know, I fell in love with the tennis. No one has played tennis in my family before. So it was it was quite a choice, I must say. But incredible resilience, just belief from my parents, from all the people around me all these years. You know, my wife, my kids, my team, everyone that is there. This is your trophy as much as is mine. This is your success. I love you. And to make the history, you know, of this sport is just something truly remarkable and special. Obviously, in every in every possible way, in every possible meaning of the world of the word special. Um, yeah, it's hard to describe it. The words. You know, I had the childhood dream when I was 78. I wanted to become the best player in the world and win Wimbledon trophy. That was that was only thing I only thing I wanted. Um, but then when when I when I realized that, you know, obviously I started to dream new dreams and set new objectives, new goals. Uh, I never imagined that I would be here sitting standing with you talking about 24 slams. I never thought that that's that that would be the reality. But, uh, you know, last couple of years I felt I have a chance. I have a shot at the history. Um, and why not grab it if it's presented? Why not enough talking about myself, you know, because it Daniel said too many nice words and sorry I didn't start congratulating you. I want to congratulate you for a fantastic tournament. I'm sorry about the result today. And please don't get this in the wrong way. Happy anniversary. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It really it comes from a good place. Honestly, you know, it's not. Uh, if I knew that the anniversary is today, maybe, you know, the result jokes aside, jokes aside, Daniel has been incredibly, incredibly nice and kind to me, to my team. Uh, he's he's coach everyone. You know, I think since you were, you know, a junior 14 15, you started training with your coach, and it's nice to see the evolution of of your relationship, professional relationship, what you have achieved, what you have done. And I know that there is a lot more for you to achieve in the future years. So good luck with that. For sure, you will. You will win more slams. No doubt. I just want to say that, uh, you know, you, sir, mentioned what you love about Daniel, and I agree with you. I think he has definitely the most authentic personality out there and never change. Please, with your celebrations, with your, you know, comments. I love it. You know, definitely the best. Um, what else? What else should I say? Mamba mentality, memory of the late Kobe Bryant, the mamba mentality and the Novak will to win. Where does it come from? How do you do it? I thought off doing this t shirt, you know, eventually, if I get a chance to to win the tournament, it was about seven days ago. I didn't I didn't share it with anyone up to two few days ago when I asked my people to help me out to make these shirts. Um, Kobe, uh, Kobe was close, close friend. We chatted a lot about about the winning, you know, winner's mentality when I was struggling, you know, with the injury and trying to make my comeback, work my way back to the top of the game. You know, he was one of the people that I rely on the most. He was always there for any kind of council advice, any kind of support in the most friendly way. Um, so, of course, what happened a few years ago and him and his order passing hurt me deeply. And, uh, I thought, you know, 24 is the jersey that he wore when he became a legend of Lakers and world basketball. So I thought, you know, it could be a nice symbolic thing to, uh, to acknowledge him. Thank you know that and congratulations. And as we celebrate 50 years of equal prize money at the U. S. Open Novak Djokovic, you also win $3 million to present the check. Ben Walter, CEO of Chase for Business. And now a tip of the hat to your longevity at age 36, the oldest man to win this title. We have someone who you played against to present the trophy, and he's been retired for a decade in honor of Andy Roddick's 20 years ago. Winning this crown, Andy Roddick present the trophy. Sure. Looks like Novak and his team knew he was going to win today. They had the jackets ready. Well, seven days ago, they start making this T shirt and a couple of days ago, he he waited till he made it to the second week where he