{"id":1331,"date":"2011-08-21T20:10:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T14:28:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:28:17","slug":"sore-shoulder-ends-noles-run-in-cincinnati-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/sore-shoulder-ends-noles-run-in-cincinnati-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Sore shoulder ends Nole\u2019s  run in Cincinnati final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/864b.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photo: AP<\/font>{nl}{nl}<b>A sore shoulder forced world no.1 Novak Djokovic to retire in the second set on Sunday, giving fourth-seeded Andy Murray a 6-4, 3-0 win in the finals of the Western &#038; Southern Open, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event.<\/b>{nl}{nl}Nole was off his game against Murray, who took advantage of it. The top-seeded Serb was broken in the opening game of the match. He fought back in the sixth game to level the score, but the Brit broke once again winning a fantastic 42-shots rally. It was the crucial moment for Andy to take the set in which Novak made 20 unforced errors.{nl}{nl}The 24-year-old Belgrade native called the trainer and got his shoulder treated between the sets. It was obvious from the very first point that he was struggling with a shoulder injury.{nl}{nl}Three games were played in the second set. Murray converted his chances in the first and third games for 3-0 lead when the world\u2019s top ranked player decided to pull out.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;I just could not serve. I served an average 90 miles per hour the first serve, and I could not play forehands,&#8221;<\/b> said Nole. <b>&#8220;I could have maybe played another couple of games, but what for? I cannot beat a player like Murray today with one stroke. There is no good loss, that&#8217;s for sure. But the good thing is that there is a week, eight days before the start of the US Open. So I think that&#8217;s enough time for me to get ready.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}Match statistics: aces (0-1), double faults (1-0), winners (8-7), unforced errors (28-8).{nl}{nl}Nole equalled his best result in Cincinnati (finals in 2008 and 2009).{nl}{nl}He will be awarded  $243,200 and will add 420 ATP Ranking points to last year&#8217;s 180 (lost to Roddick in quarter-finals).{nl}{nl}The Serbian star has been having a dream season, winning nine titles (including Grand Slams at the Australian Open and Wimbledon plus a record five ATP Masters 1000 titles in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Rome and Montreal).{nl}{nl}Attention now turns to US Open, the final Grand Slam tournament of the year, starting in little over a week, on Monday, August 29. {nl}{nl}Novak reached finals at Flushing Meadows last year, he fell to Spaniard Rafael Nadal.{nl}{nl}<b>Nole, we wish you a full and speedy recovery!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sore shoulder forced world no.1 Novak Djokovic to retire in the second set on Sunday, giving fourth-seeded Andy Murray a 6-4, 3-0 win in the finals of the Western &#038; Southern Open, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011861],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-cincinnati-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27979,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/27979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}