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Men’s Tennis 2016 and a Look Ahead 2016 was a year of two very distinct halves in men’s professional tennis.  Novak Djokovic dominated the first half, and Andy Murray led the second.  Novak won his sixth Australian Open title over five-time unsuccessful finalist Murray.  This ties Novak with Roy Emerson for most men’s AO titles.  Djokovic then won the Indian Wells – Miami double of 1000-level titles in March.  It was his third consecutive sweep of the titles, one more year than Federer who won both titles consecutively in 2005-06. Rafael Nadal initially continued his bad form from 2015 but finally began to find his rhythm and took the 1000 in Monte Carlo over Gael Monfils and the 500 in Barcelona over Nishikori.  Djokovic took the clay 1000 title in Madrid over Murray, but Murray reversed fortunes and claimed the Italian 1000 over Djokovic. Heading into the French, a revitalized Nadal, Djokovic, a newly-clay loving Murray, and defending champion Wawrinka all had plausi