{"id":128552,"date":"2019-12-20T16:17:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=128552"},"modified":"2019-12-21T15:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T14:46:19","slug":"mubadala-wtc-tsitsipas-tops-novak-for-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/mubadala-wtc-tsitsipas-tops-novak-for-final-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mubadala WTC: Tsitsipas tops Novak for final spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Semi-final encounter at the 2019 Mubadala World Tennis Championship has brought an interesting clash between Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Greek recorded a 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4 win at the International Tennis Centre at Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was the first match for the Serbian star in preparation for the new tennis season.<\/p>\n<p>Making his debut in Abu Dhabi in 2011, Djokovic has never lost a match at the MWTC before. He won the title three years in a row from 2011-2013, and in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In the second match of the day, Rafael Nadal defeated Karen Khachanov.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will face the Russian in the third-place play-off, scheduled on Saturday at 17:00 local time (14:00 CET).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek recorded a 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4 win at the International Tennis Centre at Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi on Friday. In the third-place play-off, Novak will face Karen Khachanov on Saturday at 17:00 local time (14:00 CET).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":128548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101012218,101012333,101013098,101012199],"class_list":["post-128552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-abu-dhabi-en","tag-exhibition-en","tag-mubadala-world-tennis-championship-2019-en","tag-uae-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128552","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=128552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128566,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128552\/revisions\/128566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}