{"id":33834,"date":"2012-08-19T20:03:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=33834"},"modified":"2012-08-19T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T20:47:24","slug":"novak-falls-in-cincinnati-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-falls-in-cincinnati-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak falls in Cincinnati final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cincinnati_12_getty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cinsinnati Masters 2nd seed Novak Djokovic suffered a 0-6, 6-7 (7) defeat to top-seeded Roger Federer in the finals of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincytennis.com\/\">Western &amp; Southern Open<\/a> on Sunday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak struggled on serve and some uncharacteristic unforced errors combined with excellent shot-making from Federer, proved decisive as Djokovic lost his 16th of 28 meetings between the two in 1 hour and 20 minutes in\u00a0the first top 2 final at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Nole hadn\u2019t dropped serve entering the match, but he was broken three times in the opening set and Federer\u00a0stormed to a one-set lead in just 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Players held their serves in the second set. Novak saved one match point and failed to convert a set point in\u00a0a tense tie-break that Federer won 9-7 to take a record fifth Cincinnati title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;He started very solid from serve,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0said Nole. <strong>&#8220;He was using it very efficiently and putting a lot pressure on my serve. I made a lot of double faults and didn&#8217;t find my rhythm. Set was over in 20 minutes. I played better in the second. I thought it was very even, and then when I had the chances I didn&#8217;t use them. I didn&#8217;t step into the court, and he deserved to win.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (2-8), double faults (5-1), winners (12-28), unforced errors (23-18), total points won (50-67).<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic was bidding to lift his first Cincinnati trophy, having also finished runner-up in 2008<br \/>\n(l. to Murray), 2009 (l. to Federer) and 2011 (l. to Murray).<\/p>\n<p>He was playing in his 49th career ATP World Tour level title match (31-18 mark) and 22nd ATP World Tour Masters 1000 final (12-10).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak next heads to New York for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usopen.org\/index.html\">US Open<\/a>, where he will defend title and 2000 points.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last Grand slam of the season will take place\u00a0at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center from August 27 to September 9.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinsinnati Masters second seed suffered a 0-6, 6-7 (7) loss to top-seeded Roger Federer in the finals of the Western &#038; Southern Open on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":33874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012288,101010437],"class_list":["post-33834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-cincinnati-2012-en","tag-final-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834","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=33834"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33838,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834\/revisions\/33838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}