The 34-year-old Serbian ace made his 119th tour-level championship match (82-36) in Belgrade on Friday, and his third final in 2021.<\/p>\n
Novak Djokovic is through to the Belgrade Open final, after he defeated qualifier Andrej Martin of Slovakia in three sets, 6-1, 4-6, 6-0.<\/strong><\/p>\n Novak powered to a one set lead with two breaks of serve, in the second and sixth games.<\/p>\n The two players had traded breaks twice in the second set, before Martin clinched another break in the 10th game to force a decider.<\/p>\n Djokovic regrouped and raised his level in the third set. He made a triple break to seal the win after one hour and 55 minutes of play.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought I started and finished the match really well, so I\u2019ll try to take those positive feelings into tomorrow\u2019s final,\u201d<\/strong> the world no.1 said. \u201cI also had some letdowns in concentration towards the end of the second set, and I\u2019ll try to correct those mistakes for tomorrow.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n In his first ATP Tour final on home soil since 2011, Novak will take on either eighth seed Federico Delbonis (ARG) or qualifier Alex Molcan (SVK).<\/p>\n Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Novak made his 119th tour-level championship match (82-36) and his third final in 2021, as he recorded a 6-1, 4-6, 6-0 triumph over qualifier Andrej Martin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":144299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012178,101012319,101013189,101010433,101012262],"class_list":["post-144302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-belgrade-en","tag-belgrade-open-en","tag-semifinal-en","tag-serbia-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144302","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=144302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144407,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144302\/revisions\/144407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}