{"id":143098,"date":"2021-04-24T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=143098"},"modified":"2021-04-24T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T19:42:44","slug":"karatsev-stuns-novak-in-outstanding-serbia-open-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/karatsev-stuns-novak-in-outstanding-serbia-open-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Karatsev stuns Novak in outstanding Serbia Open semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Third seed Aslan Karatsev clinched the biggest win of his career against top seed and two-time <a href=\"https:\/\/serbiaopen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serbia Open<\/a> champion Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Russian edged the world no.1 in the outstanding three setter 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 on Saturday to reach the final at the ATP 250 clay-court event in Belgrade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted three hours and 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Karatsev saved 23 of the 28 break points he faced against the Serbian star.<\/p>\n<p>Novak made an early break for 3-0 lead, but the Russian responded strong and claimed the opening set 7-5 in 69 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-time Grand Slam titlist fell 2-4 behind in the second set, but dug deep to come back and take the match into the decider.<\/p>\n<p>Karatsev claimed the crucial break at 4-3 in the third set and served it out three games later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I am not satisfied with my game, but I am with the way I fought,&#8221;<\/strong> said Novak. <strong>&#8220;He played phenomenally and bravely on most of my chances, and it paid off.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two players are now tied 1-1 in their ATP H2H.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Fonet<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third seed clinched the biggest victory of his career against world no.1, triumphing 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 in three hours and 25 minutes to reach the Serbia Open final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":143096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012178,101012319,101010433,101013184],"class_list":["post-143098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-belgrade-en","tag-semifinal-en","tag-serbia-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143098","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=143098"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143117,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143098\/revisions\/143117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}