{"id":114051,"date":"2018-12-28T17:34:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=114051"},"modified":"2018-12-28T19:56:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:56:44","slug":"mubadala-wtc-novak-downs-khachanov-to-reach-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/mubadala-wtc-novak-downs-khachanov-to-reach-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Mubadala WTC: Novak downs Khachanov to reach the final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The semi-final clash at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mubadalawtc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mubadala World Tennis Championship<\/a> has brought an interesting clash between Novak Djokovic and Karen Khachanov.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This was the first match for Nole in preparation for the new tennis season. He recorded a 6-4, 6-2 win.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 made a break in the fourth game, Karen broke back five games later when Novak served for the first set at 5-3. Djokovic grabbed another break in game 10 to go in front. The second set was a one-way affair as the Serbian star broke in the sixth and eighth games to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>In the first match of the day, Kevin Anderson defeated the four-time winner Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach his second final in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The final match is scheduled on Saturday at 19:00 local time (16:00 CET). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak will be looking to secure an unprecedented fourth tournament title.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole January desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Calendar_January2019.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semi-final clash at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship has brought an interesting clash between Novak and Karen Khachanov. Nole won 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":114049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[101012218,101012333,101012199],"class_list":["post-114051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-tennis","tag-abu-dhabi-en","tag-exhibition-en","tag-uae-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114051","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=114051"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114088,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114051\/revisions\/114088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}