{"id":151210,"date":"2021-12-03T20:40:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=151210"},"modified":"2021-12-05T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:00:57","slug":"novak-pulls-serbia-level-with-croatia-in-davis-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-pulls-serbia-level-with-croatia-in-davis-cup-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia falls in semi-final, gets wildcard for 2022 DC Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia recorded a 2-1 triumph against Serbia, sending their country into the <a href=\"https:\/\/live.daviscup.com\/en\/tie-detail.php\/M-DC-2021-FLS-M-CRO-SRB-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davis Cup<\/a> final in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>World no.1 Novak Djokovic did double duty at the Davis Cup Finals on Friday, but it was not enough to give a victory to the 2010 champions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Borna Gojo won the opening singles rubber against Dusan Lajovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic then evened it up by beating Cilic 6-4, 6-2 to keep Serbian hopes alive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 20-time Grand Slam titlist converted three of his eight break point chances and saved all eight break points he faced during the one-hour, 39-minute clash.<\/p>\n<p>It was Novak&#8217;s 19th straight Davis Cup singles win.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-6), double faults (1-3), winners (12-9), unforced errors (17-15), total points won (72-54).<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the deciding doubles, Novak and Filip Krajinovic fell to the world no.1 pair Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic 5-7, 1-6.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Croatia will play Russian Tennis Federation for the trophy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serbia and Great Britain have been awarded wildcards for 2022 Davis Cup Finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak did double duty in the Davis Cup semis on Friday, but it was not enough to give a victory to the 2010 champions Serbia. Gojo won the opening singles rubber against Lajovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nole leveled the tie beating Marin Cilic 6-4, 6-2, but in the deciding doubles, the world no.1 pair Mektic\/Pavic defeated Djokovic and Krajinovic 7-5, 6-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":151189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011625,101013100,101012203,101010433,101012262,101012235],"class_list":["post-151210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-croatia-en","tag-davis-cup-by-rakuten-finals-en","tag-madrid-en","tag-semifinal-en","tag-serbia-en","tag-spain-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151210","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=151210"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151324,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151210\/revisions\/151324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}