World No1 becomes first player to win five ATP titles in a year
• Victory in Montreal is Djokovic's ninth title win of 2011
Novak Djokovic celebrates beating Mardy Fish to win the Rogers Cup in Montreal. Photograph: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images
Novak Djokovic won his ninth title of 2011 with a hard-fought win over American Mardy Fish in the final of the Rogers Cup in Montreal.
The 24-year-old Serbian, who
has won 53 of the 54 matches he has played this year, beat Fish 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.
He broke Fish's serve in the fifth game of the deciding set and held on to the advantage that gave him.
With his success,
world No1 Djokovic has become the first player to win five ATP Masters events – tournaments at the level just below the grand slams – in the same season.