4 opponents Novak Djokovic has beaten the most times without losing

Among players to have played at least 200 singles matches in the Open Era, Novak Djokovic's win-loss record of 82.9% (909-187) is only shaded by Rafael Nadal's 83.2% (988-200).

The 17-time Grand Slam champion won a record-extending 8th Major title at the 2020 Australian Open, a couple of weeks after winning the inaugural ATP Cup for Serbia. Entering Dubai for the first time since a quarterfinal loss to Feliciano Lopez in 2016, Djokovic is currently on a 19-match win-streak (16-0 for the season) after beating Karen Khachanov to reach the semifinals.

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Among 250 different players to have locked horns with Djokovic for the first time during the course of his stellar career, 176 of them have come up second best. Tatsuma Ito was the latest one to get added to this list following his straight-sets loss to the Serb in the second round of the Australian Open.

On that note, let us meet the players whom Djokovic has met the most times without losing:

#4 Milos Raonic (10-0)

Raonic (left) lost for the 10th time to Djokovic at the 2020 Australian Open

2016 Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic has never managed to solve the Djokovic conundrum despite meeting the Serb on no fewer than 10 occasions.

In their latest meeting, the quarterfinal of the 2020 Australian Open, Djokovic ran out a straight-sets victor despite Raonic having reached the last eight without dropping a set.

Raonic has only managed to take a set off Djokovic on two occasions during the course of the pair's seven-year-old head to head rivalry - the semifinals at 2014 Rome and the quarterfinals at 2018 Cincinnati. Djokovic has won the 2014 Paris-Bercy Masters and the 2016 Indian Wells Masters at the expense of the Canadian in the final.

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#3 Andreas Seppi (12-0)

Andreas Seppi (left)

Seppi has faced Djokovic 12 times on tour and has come up second best on each occasion.

Djokovic beat Seppi for the first time in the opening round at 2006 Rotterdam, and has since got the better of the Italian in 11 different tournaments - three of them being Grand Slams.

Seppi came closest to a win over Djokovic in the pair's eighth clash, in the fourth round of 2012 Roland Garros. The Italian took a two-set lead, only for the then 25-year-old Serb to win the next three sets and reach the quarters.

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#2 Jeremy Chardy (13-0)

Jeremy Chardy (left)

In his 13 meetings with Djokovic in 11 different tournaments - on clay (2), grass (2) and hardcourt (7) - Jeremy Chardy has failed to take even a set off the World No. 1.

The pair met for the first time on tour in the second round of the 2009 Australian Open, where defending champion Djokovic emerged victorious 7-5, 6-1, 6-3.

Djokovic beat Chardy 6-1, 7-6(2) in his latest meeting with the Frenchman, in the second round of the 2019 Madrid Masters - where the Serb went on to lift his 34th Masters 1000 title.

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#1 Gael Monfils (16-0)

Gael Monfils (right)

Djokovic has beaten Gael Monfils on each of the 16 occasions they have met on tour which includes five meetings at Grand Slams and seven at Masters 1000 tournaments.

In their first career meeting, in the opening round of the 2005 US Open, Monfils extended the Serb to five sets before eventually losing.

Monfils couldn't have been in better form for the pair's 17th match - the upcoming semifinals of the Dubai Open. The Frenchman has won back-to-back tournaments (Montpellier and Rotterdam) for the first time in his career, and is riding winning streaks of 12 matches and 24 sets.

However, Djokovic himself is on a stellar run of his own, having won all his 16 matches in the 2020 season. He would fancy his chances of extending his perfect record for the season against a player he has never lost to in 16 previous meetings.

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