{"id":147366,"date":"2021-07-30T12:21:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T10:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=147366"},"modified":"2021-07-31T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T14:02:50","slug":"novak-carreno-busta-to-compete-for-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-carreno-busta-to-compete-for-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak, Carreno Busta to compete for bronze in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak hasn&#8217;t made it to the gold-medal match in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic will compete for a bronze medal on Saturday at the Tokyo Olympics as he suffered a 6-1, 3-6, 1-6 semi-final loss to Alexander Zverev.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fourth-seeded German produced a sensational comeback to reach the men&#8217;s singles final.<\/p>\n<p>Novak took the opening set with two breaks of serve and was up a break in the second, before Zverev recovered to clinch a victory in two hours and three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-7), double faults (1-1), winners (13-30), unforced errors (16-14), total points won (68-83).<\/p>\n<p>Zverev will meet Karen Khachanov (ROC, 12) in Sunday\u2019s gold medal match. The Russian produced a dominant display to beat Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will play two bronze-medal matches on Saturday. He and Nina Stojanovic lost their mixed doubles semifinal to Russians Aslan Karatsev and Elena Vesnina 6-7, 5-7.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian pairing will face John Peers and Ashleigh Barty of Australia.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Fonet<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak will compete for a bronze medal on Saturday at the Tokyo Olympics as he suffered a 6-1, 3-6, 1-6 semi-final loss to fourth seed Alexander Zverev. The German will face Karen Khachanov in the gold-medal match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":147364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012210,101010433,101012361,101013206],"class_list":["post-147366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-japan-en","tag-semifinal-en","tag-tokyo-en","tag-tokyo-olympics-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147366","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=147366"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147571,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147366\/revisions\/147571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}