The duopoly that became a trivalry has been reduced to a soloist. For years, Novak Djokovic struggled to invade the airspace of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, the talented tennis clown who often shrank when the time came to take the sport's giants down. Call it gravitas or cajones, but Djokovic lacked it when it counted.

But as the 2011 tennis season rumbles to the finish line, Djokovic has transformed himself into the most dominant athlete in the sport and a man with no rivals. He is a preposterous 64-2 this year, including three majors, and at 8:24 p.m. on Sept. 12, 2011, Djokovic solidified arguably the greatest single-season (think of his competition in this era) in the history of men's tennis. His 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-1 win over Nadal in the U.S. Open men's final was his (so far) career-defining masterpiece. CBS analyst John McEnroe called the 4-hour and...

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