{"id":135152,"date":"2020-08-29T00:46:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=135152"},"modified":"2020-08-29T01:01:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T23:01:02","slug":"nole-still-perfect-in-2020-faces-raonic-for-2nd-cincinnati-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-still-perfect-in-2020-faces-raonic-for-2nd-cincinnati-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole still perfect in 2020, faces Raonic for 2nd Cincinnati trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top seed and 2018 champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Western &amp; Southern Open<\/a> final on Friday with a 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (0) comeback victory against eighth seed Roberto Bautista Agut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole fended off neck discomfort and his determined opponent to clinch a hard-fought win and improve to a perfect 22-0 W\/L record on the season.<\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 reached his 51st Masters 1000 championship match (34-16) after three hours of play.<\/p>\n<p>After losing the opening set, Novak increased his aggression and with his high level of play took the match from Bautista Agut. The third set tie-breaker was a one-way traffic, as Novak clinched it 7-0.<\/p>\n<p>It was Novak&#8217;s 12th ATP contest against the Spaniard, he now leads their H2H 9-3.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (14-2), double faults (7-4), winners (41-26), unforced errors (43-31), total points won (110-103).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will meet world no.30 Milos Raonic on Saturday, looking to win his 80th career title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Serbian star owns a faultless 10-0 ATP H2H record against the big-hitting Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>Should he take the title, Djokovic will equal Rafael Nadal&#8217;s record of 35 ATP Masters 1000 trophies, and he will also become the first player ever to win the Golden Masters twice.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed and 2018 champion advanced to the final with a 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 comeback victory against Roberto Bautista Agut. Should he take the title, Djokovic will equal Rafael Nadal&#8217;s record of 35 ATP Masters 1000 trophies and he will also become the first player ever to win the Golden Masters twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":135151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012291,101011267,101012298,101010433],"class_list":["post-135152","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-new-york-en","tag-semifinal-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135152","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=135152"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135193,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135152\/revisions\/135193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}