{"id":159956,"date":"2022-11-16T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T14:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=159956"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T08:31:11","slug":"nole-seals-sf-spot-at-the-nitto-atp-finals-in-turin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-seals-sf-spot-at-the-nitto-atp-finals-in-turin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole seals SF spot at the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Seventh seed Novak Djokovic improved to 2-0 in Red Group at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nittoatpfinals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> on Wednesday, following a convincing 6-4, 6-1 win over sixth seed Andrey Rublev in just 67 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak was getting better and better as the match progressed. The five-time former champion found a way to break Rublev&#8217;s resistance in the 10th game. After he stole the first set, it was a one way traffic. The second set was over in the blink of an eye for Djokovic by 6-1, with two breaks of serve, in the second and sixth games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI played very, very well. One of the best matches of the year without a doubt,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>\u201cHe is a tough opponent. A great competitor. He possesses a lot of strengths in his game. I managed to find the right attitude and the right game. In the 10th game of the first set, I think he was 40\/30 and we played a long rally and I just stayed in there and told myself chances will come. He went down in his energy a little in the second set. I wanted to use the momentum and energy from my side in the first few games and it was a flawless second set.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (12-10), double faults (0-1), winners (20-18), unforced errors (6-21), total points won (61-38).<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Novak sealed a spot in the semi-finals and stepped up his quest for a record-equalling sixth Nitto ATP Finals crown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic will face fourth seed Daniil Medvedev in RR3 match on Friday at 14:00 CET.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Serbian star holds a 7-4 career record in H2H meetings against the Russian.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak improved to 2-0 in Red Group at the Nitto ATP Finals on Wednesday, following a convincing 6-4, 6-1 win over sixth seed Andrey Rublev in just 67 minutes. He will face fourth seed Daniil Medvedev (H2H 7-4) in his final round-robin match on Friday at 14:00 CET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":159952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011310,101011825,101013027,101013036,101011545,101013217],"class_list":["post-159956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1500-en","tag-italy","tag-nitto-atp-finals-en","tag-rr2-en","tag-season-finale","tag-turin-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159956","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=159956"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160022,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159956\/revisions\/160022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}