{"id":124315,"date":"2019-08-18T02:13:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T00:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=124315"},"modified":"2019-08-18T02:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T00:50:14","slug":"medvedev-upsets-novak-in-ws-open-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/medvedev-upsets-novak-in-ws-open-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev upsets Novak in W&#038;S Open semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medvedev ended Novak&#8217;s run at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western &amp; Southern Open<\/a> on Saturday night to set up final against David Goffin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniil Medvedev defeated top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 in one hour and 42 minutes to advance to the Cincinnati Masters Championship match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ninth seed from Russia outplayed Novak for the second time this year and reached his third final in three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Novak made a break in the sixth game and seized a one-set-to-love advantage. But then, Medvedev reversed course in stunning fashion and broke the 32-year old Belgrade native once in the second set and twice in the third, to seal the win and deny the Serb a place in his 50th ATP Masters 1000 final.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (6-16), double faults (1-4), winners (26-37), unforced errors (16-21), total points won (75-75).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will now head to New York for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Open<\/a>. It will be his 14th appearance at Flushing Meadows, where he lifted the trophy in 2011, 2015 and 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year he beat Juan Martin del Potro in the final 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the season will take place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center from August 26 to September 8.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Medvedev dethroned last year&#8217;s winner Novak, following a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 win over the top seed. He\u2019ll face David Goffin on Sunday for the Cincinnati Masters title. Next tournament for Novak is the US Open (August 26 &#8211; September 8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":124311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012291,101011267,101010433,101013076],"class_list":["post-124315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-cincinnati-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-semifinal-en","tag-western-and-southern-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124315","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=124315"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124335,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124315\/revisions\/124335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}