{"id":167274,"date":"2024-05-22T21:15:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167274"},"modified":"2024-05-23T14:47:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T12:47:55","slug":"novak-captures-1100th-tour-level-match-win-to-reach-quarter-final-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-captures-1100th-tour-level-match-win-to-reach-quarter-final-in-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak captures 1100th career win to reach quarter-final in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No.1 seed Novak Djokovic dominated Yannick Hanfmann 6-3, 6-3 to reach quarter-finals of the Geneva ATP 250 tournament at the Tennis Club de Gen\u00e8ve, Parc des Eaux-Vives, on Wednesday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic was serving for the first set of his opening match at the <a href=\"https:\/\/gonetgenevaopen.com\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gonet Geneva Open<\/a> against the German when play was suspended for an hour due to rain.<\/p>\n<p>The players left the court with Novak serving at 5-3, Deuce. Upon resumption, the Serbian saved a break point before holding to win the set 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Though Hanfmann raced to a 3-0 lead in the second set, his game fell apart after failing to convert opportunity for 4-0. Novak won six games in a row to seal the win on his 37th birthday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe key was the birthday,\u201d Djokovic said with a laugh. \u201cThe birthday probably wouldn\u2019t be the same if I didn\u2019t win the match, but it\u2019s nice to be here for the first time at this tournament, with my family coming here to support as well.\u00a0 I\u2019m getting some really quality time on the court, but also off the court.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Novak will face Tallon Griekspoor (NED, 6) in the quarter-finals on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birthday boy Novak Djokovic recorded milestone 1100th career victory beating Yannick Hanfmann 6-3, 6-3 at the Gonet Geneva Open to progress into the last eight at the ATP 250 event. The Serbian star joined Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer with 1100 or more wins in the Open Era. Next up is Tallon Griekspoor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012178,101013397,113,101012116],"class_list":["post-167274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-gonet-geneva-open-en","tag-second-round","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167274","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=167274"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167294,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167274\/revisions\/167294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}