{"id":166014,"date":"2023-09-15T20:31:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T18:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=166014"},"modified":"2023-09-30T13:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T11:25:03","slug":"novak-sends-serbia-to-davis-cup-final-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-sends-serbia-to-davis-cup-final-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak sends Serbia to Davis Cup Final 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia defeated Spain to improve to 2-0 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daviscup.com\/en\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Davis Cup Finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>World no.1. Novak Djokovic continued his winning ways with a 6-3, 6-4 Davis Cup win against Spain&#8217;s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic&#8217;s triumph in Valencia clinched the tie for Serbia and secured its place in the Davis Cup Final 8 in Malaga in November.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m on cloud nine, as you can say, with everything the has been happening lately on the tennis court,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said post-match, alluding to his titles in Cincinnati and at the US Open. <strong>&#8220;Obviously playing for Serbia, for my country, is something completely different. It&#8217;s a huge responsibility and pressure, but also an incredible privilege and honour. I&#8217;m really glad that I was able to contribute with a crucial point to qualify for Malaga with this win.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laslo Djere opened the tie with a 6-4, 6-4 win against Albert Ramos-Vinolas to give Serbia a 1-0 lead against hosts Spain, who are now eliminated from contention for the Final 8.<\/p>\n<p>In R3, Serbia faced Czech Republic, who also qualified for the Final 8, on Saturday to determine who finishes first in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>Novak teamed up with Nikola Cacic against Adam Pavlasek and Tomas Machac. They fell to the Czech duo 5-7, 7-6 (7), 3-10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The next events in Nole&#8217;s schedule until the end of the season are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolexparismasters.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Paris Masters<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nittoatpfinals.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> in Torino and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daviscup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davis Cup<\/a> Final 8 in Malaga.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole 2023 October desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Calendar_October2023.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laslo Djere opened the tie with a 6-4, 6-4 win against Albert Ramos-Vinolas to give Serbia a 1-0 lead against hosts Spain, then Novak Djokovic continued his winning ways with a 6-3, 6-4 victory against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":166007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011418,101012262,101012235,101013365,778],"class_list":["post-166014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-davis-cup-en","tag-serbia-en","tag-spain-en","tag-valencia-en","tag-world-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166014","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=166014"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166050,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166014\/revisions\/166050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}