{"id":158892,"date":"2022-10-09T14:05:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=158892"},"modified":"2022-10-09T23:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T21:03:25","slug":"nole-wins-astana-open-final-for-90th-career-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-wins-astana-open-final-for-90th-career-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole wins Astana Open final for 90th career title!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak is the 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/astanaopen.kz\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astana Open<\/a> champion!<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no. 7 Novak Djokovic added another trophy to his remarkable collection, beating no.3 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-4 in 75 minutes in the Astana Open final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak has dominated the Greek throughout their careers, and it was not anything different in this championship match. He\u00a0has played at a really high level this tournament and he put on yet another magnificent display on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Novak broke once in each set and converted his third match point with a backhand winner. The Belgrade native also won 87 per cent of his first-serve points and did not face a break point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I could not ask for a better re-start of the season. I\u2019m super-pumped and motivated to end the season as well as I have done these past couple of weeks. I\u2019m just very grateful and blessed to be able to play this well at this stage of my life,&#8221;<\/strong> Nole said. <strong>&#8220;You know, 35 is not 25. But I think the experience, probably, in these kinds of matches and big occasions helps as well to approach mentally in the right way.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (1-1), double faults (0-2), winners (15-12), unforced errors (7-25), total points won (58-39).<\/p>\n<p>It is Novak&#8217;s fourth title of the year, after Rome, Wimbledon and Tel Aviv, in his fifth final of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With the triumph, the Serbian star backed up last week\u2019s Tel Aviv championship run with a second consecutive title and 90th overall, and qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak is heading to Paris next, for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolexparismasters.com\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Paris Masters<\/a>, where he captured a record-extending sixth crown in 2021 (def. Medvedev 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the championship match).<\/p>\n<p>The final ATP Masters 1000 event of the season will take place from October 31 to November 6.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Astana Open<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak triumphed 6-3, 6-4 against no.3 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas to add the Kazakhstan trophy to victories in Rome, Wimbledon and Tel Aviv this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":158931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013281,101013280,101013282,101013285,207,908,101013205],"class_list":["post-158892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-astana-en","tag-astana-open-en-2","tag-atp-500-en-2","tag-atp-finals","tag-champion","tag-kazakhstan","tag-turin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158892","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158892"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158997,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158892\/revisions\/158997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}