{"id":168934,"date":"2025-03-28T21:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=168934"},"modified":"2025-03-29T02:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T01:40:18","slug":"nole-moves-closer-to-100th-title-with-sf-victory-over-dimitrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-moves-closer-to-100th-title-with-sf-victory-over-dimitrov\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole moves closer to 100th title with SF victory over Dimitrov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole moved within one win of capturing his 100th tour-level title and a record-breaking seventh Miami Open trophy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth seed Novak Djokovic dispatched no.14 seed Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 6-3 in 70 minutes on Friday to advance into a record-extending 60th Masters 1000 final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-time Grand Slam champion broke four times from six opportunities, while his opponent converted one of his two chances for break.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAs far as my game goes, again, serve was definitely the highlight of the match,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said in his on-court interview. <strong>\u201cI\u2019ve been serving really well and hopefully I can continue in the same fashion because that definitely makes my life easier on the court.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match stats: aces (5-3), double faults (1-3), winners (10-14), unforced errors (5-32), total points won (54-34).<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Open presented by Itau<\/a> title match, on Sunday at 21:00 CET, Novak faces rising star Jakub Mensik (CZE, H2H 1-0).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak advanced into a record-extending 60th Masters 1000 final after a dominant 6-2, 6-3 victory over 14th seed Grigor Dimitrov. He faces rising star Jakub Mensik (CZE, ATP no.54) on Sunday in attempt to capture his 100th tour-level title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":168930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011454,101011267,101012698,101010433],"class_list":["post-168934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-grigor-dimitrov-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-miami-open-en","tag-semifinal-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168934","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=168934"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168942,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168934\/revisions\/168942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}