{"id":125985,"date":"2019-10-05T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T07:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=125985"},"modified":"2019-10-05T11:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T09:12:18","slug":"novak-sets-tokyo-final-showdown-against-millman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-sets-tokyo-final-showdown-against-millman\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak sets Tokyo final showdown against Millman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic brushed aside no.3 seed David Goffin with very little fuss on Saturday, beating the Belgian in straight sets to reach the <a href=\"https:\/\/rakutenopen.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships<\/a> final on his tournament debut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 completed a 6-3, 6-4 victory in 90 minutes and will be hot favourite to win the title for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Novak moved into his 110th career ATP final with a yet another command performance. The Serb was in cruise control from the start. He made a break in each set and saved all four break points he faced during the eighth career encounter with the Belgian (7-1 H2H mark).<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic won 10 of 12 points at net and a remarkable 87% of points on first serve.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (7-7), double faults (0-1), winners (24-23), unforced errors (18-19), total points won (68-56).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak faces qualifier John Millman in Sunday&#8217;s Tokyo final (2-0 H2H record), after the Australian overpowered USA&#8217;s Reilly Opelka 6-3, 7-6 (4).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak completed a 6-3, 6-4 victory over third seed David Goffin in 90 minutes and will be hot favourite to win the title for the first time. He faces qualifier John Millman (AUS, 2-0 H2H) on Sunday at 08:30 CET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":125982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101012210,101013088,101010433,101012361],"class_list":["post-125985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-japan-en","tag-rakuten-japan-open-tennis-championships-en","tag-semifinal-en","tag-tokyo-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125985","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=125985"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126027,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125985\/revisions\/126027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}