{"id":158368,"date":"2022-10-02T19:56:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T17:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=158368"},"modified":"2022-10-02T20:08:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T18:08:49","slug":"nole-completes-debut-in-tel-aviv-with-89th-career-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-completes-debut-in-tel-aviv-with-89th-career-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole completes debut in Tel Aviv with 89th career title!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic won his 89th career title when he outplayed second seed Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-4 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/tawo.co.il\/tawo-tour-main-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tel Aviv Watergen Open<\/a> final on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Serbian star became the first man to capture a trophy on hard, clay and grass courts this season.<\/p>\n<p>Nole did not drop a set all week. The 35-year-old Belgrade native broke Cilic&#8217;s serve once in each set and fended off the only break point he faced during the one hour, 34-minute encounter, to win his third tour-level crown of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (7-13), double faults (4-5), winners (21-22), unforced errors (11-20), total points won (64-51).<\/p>\n<p>Novak will try to claim his fourth trophy in 2022 next week at the <a href=\"https:\/\/astanaopen.kz\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astana Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The third edition of the former ATP 250 event takes place between October 3-10. The organizers have raised the bar, and Astana has become an ATP 500 tournament. The 21-time Major champion will make his debut in Astana as a wild card entry.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is no.4 seed and will face world no.79 Cristian Garin (H2H 2-0) in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole 2022 October desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Calendar_October2022.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top seed won his third title of the season, and 89th of his career, when he outplayed second seed Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-4 in the Tel Aviv Watergen Open final on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":158364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012178,101010437,101013258,101013259,101013260],"class_list":["post-158368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-final-en","tag-israel","tag-tel-aviv-en","tag-tel-aviv-watergen-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158368","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=158368"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158378,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158368\/revisions\/158378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}