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Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams shine brightest during memorable Wimbledon

(Photo by Thomas Lovelock - AELTC Pool/Getty Images)

From the baseline to the bass line. From Centre Court to Studio 54 (well, actually London's Guildhall).

It's sometimes said that Novak Djokovic, now a winner of three Wimbledon singles titles and nine Grand Slams in all, is the best mover in tennis. And his performances across London over the past couple of days would suggest that's as true off Centre Court as on it.

At Sunday evening's Champions' Dinner, he and the ladies' winner, Serena Williams, danced to "Night Fever" by The Bee Gees, with a performance so slick it invited accusations that it had been choreographed backstage.

Not so, said the king of Centre Court and disco, though he was happy to have revived a tradition that was thought to have been abandoned in the 1970s like tight shorts on male players: The two singles champions always used to have the first dance together.

If this Serbian and Californian pair win again next summer, the All England Club might have to revert to calling its end-of-fortnight party a ball.

Djokovic would have preferred a waltz, but Williams, who has recently incorporated dance movements into her fitness regime, wanted something a little livelier.

"It was my idea to dance. I was very pleased -- Serena is a good dancer," said Djokovic, who had cleared the disco revival with Philip Brook, the chairman of the All England Club.

Here was the theme tune from the John Travolta movie, reimagined for a new audience, a new decade and a new day of the week: Call it Wimbledon's Sunday Night Fever.

Still, if Djokovic, 28, wants to be remembered for anything at Wimbledon and across the tennis map, it's as the man who has reworked and reinvented what's possible on court.

For years, Djokovic was the third man of the Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal era. Now look at him. "Ooh, Roger's dancing again," Ivan Ljubicic, a former world No.3, had observed to The New York Times after watching Federer's semifinal against Andy Murray.

But then on Sunday, Federer -- who had been attempting to win an unparalleled eighth Wimbledon title and simultaneously claim a record 18th Grand Slam -- ran into someone who doesn't exactly suffer from two left feet, whether wearing trainers or black leather shoes.

There have been times in the past when the men's singles champion has returned to the All England Club on Monday morning looking a little weary from the night before, but that was never going to be the case with Djokovic.

The Serbian is a man who marked one Grand Slam title by breaking off a square of dark chocolate just to remind himself what it tastes like (he hadn't eaten any for more than a year). No, Djokovic was thinking with a clear head, his mind as unencumbered as his body is free of gluten.

What now for the John Travolta of tennis? By beating Federer in four sets, he moved past all those greats who won eight majors -- Andre Agassi, Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, Fred Perry and Ken Rosewall -- and is now on his own on nine slams.

The sight of Federer, who turns 34 next month, on the other side of the net should confirm to Djokovic that he could have many more years to add to that tally.

"I'm still far, far away, and to reach those guys would be amazing," Djokovic said. "I have great motivation to keep winning grand slam titles."

He hopes to continue bringing great "joy" to himself and those around him.

John McEnroe's analysis is that Djokovic can climb very high indeed on that leaderboard. "Novak is just coming into his prime, and it is pretty hard not to think that he is getting stronger and stronger.

"If he stays healthy, he is going to dominate the next couple of years. He is definitely in my all-time top five. My top four are Rod Laver, Pete Sampras, Roger and Rafael Nadal, but Novak is at No. 5 and rising," McEnroe told the BBC.

"Novak doesn't have as many Grand Slams as those guys, but I'm thinking his total is going to rise quickly. He could be moving up even further in my eyes, but he has already jumped some people by winning Wimbledon again."

If Djokovic believes that he is at the peak of his powers but could yet improve on his game, so too does his dance partner, who is five years his senior. For the second time in her career and for the first time in 12 years, Williams has achieved the Serena Slam, holding all four majors at the same time.

The 33-year-old, against surely a rising star of the women's game, Garbine Muguruza, also became the oldest female winner of a singles major in the modern era. Williams is now three quarters of the way to becoming the first woman -- or player of either sex -- since Steffi Graf in 1988 to accomplish the calendar-year Grand Slam.

En route, Williams achieved a 17th successive victory against Maria Sharapova, and that firm-as-ever roadblock means the Russian has still only beaten Williams twice.

Both victories came in 2004, in the Wimbledon final and then at the season-ending tournament in Los Angeles; her period in the Serena-shaped shade looks set to continue.

The status quo between Williams sisters was also underlined as, earlier in the fortnight, Serena had played and beaten sister Venus in the first all-Williams match at the Grand Slams in six years.

Serena also beat Heather Watson on the way, and the Briton's oh-so-close performance spread expectation that a place for her in the top 20 beckons.

Among the other things this Wimbledon will be remembered for was the second-round departure in the men's singles tournament of Nadal. The former champion was unseated by Dustin Brown, a qualifier with dreadlocks, a serve-and-volley game and a marvelous backstory.

For home fans, Murray -- whose tennis has been revived by a combination of good health, his coach Amelie Mauresmo, his assistant coach Jonas Bjorkman and his wife, Kim -- played with great assurance in reaching the last four.

However, the British No. 1 came up against Federer in his serving pomp in their semifinal; there was little, if anything at all, that Murray could have done to have repelled the Swiss.

This was also a fine Wimbledon for those in their mid-thirties. Williams excelled, another 33-year-old, Federer, came so close, and Martina Hingis, who is 34, won a couple of Wimbledon titles with Indian partners, taking the women's doubles prize with Sania Mirza and the mixed doubles trophy in partnership with Leander Paes.

In the end, both singles titles were won by those ranked No. 1 in the world, but never before had anyone defeated Nadal on the clay of Roland Garros and Federer on the Wimbledon grass in the same year.

Djokovic called that feat "the ultimate challenge" in tennis and, but for an inspired performance from Stan Wawrinka in the French Open final, Djokovic would now be in the same position as Williams: just one title away from sweeping all the majors in one year.

The Wimbledon champion was looking extremely content on Monday, and so he should. How well he recovered from the disappointment of Paris, where he would have completed his career Grand Slam, to score this Wimbledon title.

Now thoughts turn to the US Open. It's on the cement of New York, remember, that this dancer from Belgrade moves best of all.