{"id":167334,"date":"2024-05-24T17:21:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167334"},"modified":"2024-05-24T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T15:21:58","slug":"novak-upset-by-machac-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-upset-by-machac-in-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak upset by Machac in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.44 Tomas Machac captured the biggest win of his career on Friday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/gonetgenevaopen.com\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gonet Geneva Open<\/a>, where he upset world no.1 Novak Djokovic 6-4, 0-6, 6-1 to reach his first ATP Tour final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Czech moved freely and struck the ball well against the top-seeded Serb.<\/p>\n<p>Players had traded break once in the first set, before Machac converted another chance in the ninth game and closed it 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Novak looked fresher in the second set and moved well. He broke his rival three times to level the contest.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the deciding third set, the momentum switched again. Djokovic suffered three breaks, in the third, fifth and seventh games.<\/p>\n<p>Novak will head to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland Garros<\/a> where he faces Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the first round.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic stumbled in Geneva defeat, exited in semifinals to Tomas Machac (4-6, 6-0, 1-6). He will head to Roland Garros where he faces Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012178,101013396,101013397,101010433],"class_list":["post-167334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-geneva","tag-gonet-geneva-open-en","tag-semifinal-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167334","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=167334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167336,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167334\/revisions\/167336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}