{"id":150394,"date":"2021-11-19T22:53:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=150394"},"modified":"2021-11-19T23:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T22:16:15","slug":"turin-novak-beats-norrie-to-finish-3-0-in-green-group-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/turin-novak-beats-norrie-to-finish-3-0-in-green-group-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Turin: Novak beats Norrie to finish 3-0 in Green Group play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic finished the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nittoatpfinals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> Green Group undefeated. The top seed beat alternate Cameron Norrie 6-2, 6-1 in 66 minutes, to score his third straight win in Turin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is the sixth time Nole finished group play unbeaten, first time since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The five time former titlist broke twice in the first set and three times in the second.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMy tennis gets better and better in every match,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more satisfied prior to possibly the two most important matches in the tournament.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (5-1), double faults (0-2), winners (21-9), unforced errors (16-24), total points won (56-33).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will face no.3 seed Alexander Zverev in Saturday&#8217;s semi-final (21:00 CET).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian ace is 7-3 against the German, who finished runner up in the Red Group.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the clash, Djokovic added: <strong>&#8220;It is very fast court, he is a great server, lots of power. I need to be motivated, solid, stable, and return very well. We have had some tight matches this year&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Second seed Daniil Medvedev will play Green Group runner-up Casper Ruud in the afternoon semi-final action.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak scored a third straight win at the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin, beating alternate Cameron Norrie 6-2, 6-1. He goes on to play no.3 seed Alexander Zverev in Saturday&#8217;s semi-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":150388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011310,101012243,101013027,101013037,101013217],"class_list":["post-150394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1500-en","tag-italy-en","tag-nitto-atp-finals-en","tag-rr3-en","tag-turin-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150394","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=150394"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150413,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150394\/revisions\/150413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}