{"id":113707,"date":"2018-12-13T17:33:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=113707"},"modified":"2018-12-13T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:57:15","slug":"nole-named-itf-world-champion-for-the-sixth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/media\/nole-named-itf-world-champion-for-the-sixth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole named ITF World Champion for the sixth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak has been named the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/news\/298473.aspx?utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITF<\/a> Men\u2019s World Champion!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The World Champions are based on an objective system that considers all results during the year, giving special weight to the Grand Slam tournaments and Davis Cup.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sixth year Novak has received the honour. He completed another remarkable season on the ATP World Tour, winning four titles (two Grand Slams &#8211; Wimbledon and US Open, and two Masters 1000 events &#8211; Shanghai and Cincinnati). Djokovic claimed historic W&amp;S Open crown to become the first singles player to achieve Career Golden Masters.<\/p>\n<p>Novak was also a finalist at Queen&#8217;s Club, Paris Masters and Nitto ATP Finals. He finished the year as no.1 for the fifth time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I am very honoured to be named ITF world champion again,&#8221; <\/strong>said the Serbian star. <strong>&#8220;I am particularly proud of this achievement after all that I&#8217;ve been through physically this year, but part of me always believed I could make it back to the top. It is very satisfying to join Pete Sampras by winning my sixth award.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 14-time Major titlist is one of only two men to be named World Champion six times, alongside Pete Sampras.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: ITF Tennis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ITF announced today that Serbia\u2019s Novak Djokovic and Romania\u2019s Simona Halep have been named the 2018 ITF World Champions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":113703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[101011579],"class_list":["post-113707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-other-news","tag-itf-champion-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113707","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113713,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113707\/revisions\/113713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}