{"id":166174,"date":"2023-11-05T17:11:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T16:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=166174"},"modified":"2023-11-05T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T17:07:08","slug":"novak-beats-dimitrov-to-capture-40th-masters-1000-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-beats-dimitrov-to-capture-40th-masters-1000-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak beats Dimitrov to capture 40th Masters 1000 crown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A phenomenal week for Nole, 40 Masters 1000 titles for the Serbian star!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic delivered a commanding performance to clinch a record-extending seventh title at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolexparismasters.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Paris Masters<\/a>, and his 97th career trophy, with a straightforward 6-4, 6-3 victory over Grigor Dimitrov on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak was clinical when it mattered most to break at crucial moments. He broke the 17th-ranked Bulgarian three times, once in the first set and twice in the second, to capture the dominant and comfortable 98-minute win.<\/p>\n<p>It was a close contest in the opening set but Djokovic converted his first break point opportunity in the seventh game to take the lead.<\/p>\n<p>The second set turned into one-way traffic in Accor Arena, as the world no.1 broke Dimitrov&#8217;s serve in the fifth and ninth games.<\/p>\n<p>Novak won 88 per cent (15\/17) of points behind his first serve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s incredible. To be able to win it after quite challenging circumstances for me this week,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>\u201cBasically, coming back from the brink of losing three matches in a row, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I was very close to losing those matches and somehow managed to find an extra gear when it was needed. Today, I think we both were quite tight at the beginning, and I could see that he was running out of gas a little bit. Myself as well, but I somehow managed to find an extra shot over the net. I think the match was closer than the scoreline indicates, but another amazing win for me. I\u2019m very proud of this one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was Nole&#8217;s 50th career win in Paris-Bercy. He now leads the Bulgarian 12-1 in their ATP H2H series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic will head to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nittoatpfinals.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>. The prestigious year-end championships will be played at the Pala Alpitour in Turin from 12-19 November.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Novak clinched his sixth crown, following a 7-5, 6-3 triumph over Casper Ruud in the title match.<\/p>\n<p>He also lifted the ATP Finals trophy in 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev, Jannik Sinner, Andrey Rublev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev and Holger Rune are in the elite field.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top sed Novak Djokovic delivered clinical performance to clinch a record-extending seventh title at the Rolex Paris Masters, and his 97th career trophy, with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Grigor Dimitrov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":166186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101010566,101012251,101011267,101013019,101011456],"class_list":["post-166174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-atp-finals-en","tag-france-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rolex-paris-masters-en","tag-title-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166174","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=166174"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166237,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166174\/revisions\/166237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}