{"id":171168,"date":"2026-11-04T18:41:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=171168"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:41:56","slug":"novak-falls-to-hijikata-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-falls-to-hijikata-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak falls to Hijikata in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak Djokovic\u2019s ATP Finals hopes have been brought to stunning end in unexpected Paris loss to Rinky Hijikata, who claimed his first-ever triumph against the Serbian star, coming from a set down to win 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 in two hours and 15 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak took the opening set against the Australian, but the world no.83 found a brilliant level behind his attacking forehand to clinch the second set and force the decider. The 24-time grand slam champion struggled with errors in the third set, with Hijikata seizing his chance to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics: aces (7-4), double faults (5-1), winners (27-41), unforced errors (24-33), total points won (91-91).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak\u2019s ATP Finals hopes have been brought to stunning end in unexpected Paris loss to Rinky Hijikata, who claimed his first-ever triumph against the Serbian star, coming from a set down to win 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 in two hours and 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":171163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011267,101012260,101013019,113],"class_list":["post-171168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-paris-en","tag-rolex-paris-masters-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171168","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=171168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171169,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171168\/revisions\/171169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}