{"id":113007,"date":"2018-11-17T22:48:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=113007"},"modified":"2018-11-18T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T11:01:06","slug":"novak-zverev-to-battle-for-atp-finals-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-zverev-to-battle-for-atp-finals-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak, Zverev to battle for ATP Finals title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole is through to his seventh ATP Finals championship match!<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic produced a brilliant display to reach the title match at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nittoatpfinals.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> with a 6-2, 6-2 win on Saturday over Kevin Anderson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Serb needed only 75 minutes to beat the South African fourth seed.<\/p>\n<p>Novak pressured Anderson from the first game of the match. He broke four times from nine opportunities, twice in each set, and did not face a break point during the contest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I think it was the best match I&#8217;ve played this week. It came at the right time. He lost serve in the first game, that obviously made a big difference. His serve percentage was quite low, it wasn&#8217;t working so well. I tried to constantly pressure his serve,&#8221;<\/strong> said Novak. <strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m just very pleased that I&#8217;m able to play at a high level consistently. A lot of players are tired coming into the last few weeks of the year. We always try to find whatever is left in us. I&#8217;m really glad to reach another final.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (6-4), double faults (1-3), winners (18-12), unforced errors (14-27), total points won (62-37).<\/p>\n<p>It is Novak&#8217;s first run to the title match at the prestigious year-end event without dropping a set.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kgoc10yZQIk\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Playing for his sixth season finale trophy, Djokovic will face no.3 seed Alexander Zverev on Sunday at 18:00 local time (19:00 CET).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old German upset Roger Federer 7-5, 7-6 (5) earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Novak defeated Zverev 6-4, 6-1. He leads their ATP H2H 2-1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I played very well against him in the group stages but I don&#8217;t think he was playing very well. Today against Roger he had a great match. I need to fight til the last point. Let the better player win,&#8221; <\/strong>Nole said about the upcoming challenge.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole reached his seventh final crushing fourth seed Kevin Anderson 6-2, 6-2 in just 75 minutes. He will play no.3 seed Alexander Zverev (2-1 H2H record) for his sixth season finale trophy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":113004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012193,101012613,101013027,101010433,101012498],"class_list":["post-113007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-london-en","tag-masters-cup-en","tag-nitto-atp-finals-en","tag-semifinal-en","tag-the-o2-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113007"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113196,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113007\/revisions\/113196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}