{"id":123173,"date":"2019-07-12T17:33:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=123173"},"modified":"2019-07-12T21:03:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:03:03","slug":"novak-powers-into-sixth-wimbledon-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-powers-into-sixth-wimbledon-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak powers into sixth Wimbledon final!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole moved within one win of clinching his fifth trophy at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Championships<\/a>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed and world no.1 Novak Djokovic outplayed 23rd seed Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Friday in their semi-final on Centre Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The four-time Wimbledon titlist sailed through the first set with two breaks of serve, hitting 12 winners to seize the momentum in the pair\u2019s 11th H2H meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, the 15-time Grand Slam champion, experienced a drop in form in the second set, which saw the Spaniard level the contest with a break in the third game.<\/p>\n<p>Novak changed his tactics and hit a higher gear in the third and fourth sets, moving on to advance into his sixth Wimbledon final (4-1) in two hours and 48 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (9-5), double faults (3-2), winners (42-34), unforced errors (29-30), total points won (118-102).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yYYbfyer6BY\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will face eight-time former champion Roger Federer in a blockbuster final on Sunday (14:00 local time \/ 15:00 CET) at the All England Club. <\/strong>The second-seeded Swiss rallied past Rafael Nadal (ESP, 3) in four sets.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic owns a 25-22 mark against Federer in H2H series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s the final of Wimbledon. This is the kind of match that I always dreamed of being part of as a young boy with the tennis racquet. This is what I worked for. I wanted to be in this position,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>\u201cI have a chance to fight for a trophy, I&#8217;ll definitely give it my all.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak booked a place in his 25th Grand Slam championship title match (15-9) and his sixth Wimbledon final, following a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over 23rd seed Roberto Bautista Agut. He will face Roger Federer (SUI, 2) in Sunday&#8217;s blockbuster final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":123167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012193,101010433,101011449,101013072],"class_list":["post-123173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-semifinal-en","tag-the-championships-en","tag-wimbledon-2019-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123173","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=123173"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123255,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123173\/revisions\/123255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}