{"id":160191,"date":"2022-11-19T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=160191"},"modified":"2022-11-20T20:28:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T19:28:03","slug":"novak-clinches-great-win-to-reach-the-turin-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-clinches-great-win-to-reach-the-turin-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak pulls off great win to reach the Turin final!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nole is through to his eighth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nittoatpfinals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> championship match!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Five-time former champion Novak Djokovic put in a great performance as he dug deep to defeat American Taylor Fritz 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6) and move within one victory of equalling Roger Federer\u2019s record of six titles at the prestigious season finale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both players broke twice during the one-hour, 54-minute match, but Djokovic found a way to pull through in a pair of tie-breaks as he wrapped up a hard-fought victory at the Pala Alpitour in Turin.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f-urHADaBjU\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI had to fight to survive,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>\u201cI didn\u2019t feel very reactive today or very comfortable. I knew coming into today\u2019s match from yesterday\u2019s gruelling battle against Medvedev I knew it would take me some time to adjust and find the dynamic movement I need against Fritz, who is one of the best servers on the Tour. I had to be very patient, I didn\u2019t start the second set very well, but I managed to break at 5-4 when he was serving for the set, like when Medvedev was serving for the match yesterday. In those moments I find another gear. I managed to hold my nerve, made him play another shot in the tie-break. I&#8217;m very pleased to have overcome this one, as I don\u2019t think it was one of my best days tennis-wise, but I managed to hang in there.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-15), double faults (1-1), winners (15-30), unforced errors (21-32), total points won (84-73).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will take on Casper Ruud of Norway in the championship match on Sunday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The third seed defeated Andrey Rublev (RUS, 6) in the second semifinal 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I was looking forward to being in this position,&#8221;<\/strong> the seventh seed said ahead of the final challenge. <strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to be able to compete for another big trophy, one of the biggest ones that we have in our sport.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak eliminated Taylor Fritz 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6) to reach his eighth career year-end tournament final. The seventh seed will take on Casper Ruud in the championship match on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":160185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011310,101011825,101013027,101011545,101010433,101013217],"class_list":["post-160191","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-season-finale","tag-semifinal-en","tag-turin-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160191","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=160191"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160337,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160191\/revisions\/160337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}