This was the Spaniard’s first tournament since winning a history-making 21st Grand Slam at the Australian Open last month.
The finish time of 4:55 am marked the latest ever finish to an ATP match. It has beaten Lleyton Hewitt’s clash with Marcos Baghdatis in the 2008 Australian Open.
The 22-year-old, who dropped just eight points on serve in eight service games, registered a comfortable 6-4, 6-0 win over the World No. 73 Slovak in just 52 minutes.
The third seed, who was competing in his ninth tour-level final, comfortably got past Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-2 in 78 minutes.
Djokovic has held the No. 1 ranking for a record 338 weeks and has concluded the year as the ATP year-end No. 1 on six occasions.
On Thursday, the unseeded finalists upset the third and second seeds, respectively, in the Australian Open.
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John Isner is only the second player in the history of tennis to have reached the 13,000-ace milestone.
For only the second time in his career, the Russian star bounced back from a two-sets-to-love deficit under the lights at Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday.
Svitolina has won 16 singles titles in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and has finished third three times.