{"id":34138,"date":"2012-08-26T00:06:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T22:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=34138"},"modified":"2012-08-26T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T06:14:50","slug":"novak-wins-us-open-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-wins-us-open-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak wins US Open Series!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34139\" title=\"Novak wins US Open Series!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/us_open_series1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/us_open_series1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/us_open_series1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/us_open_series1-267x183.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak clinched the\u00a0Emirates Airline\u00a0US Open\u00a0Series trophy on Friday and will win a $1,000,000 bonus should he retain his\u00a0US Open\u00a0title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic\u2019s victory was confirmed after\u00a0Sam Querrey\u00a0lost to Tomas Berdych\u00a0in the\u00a0Winston-Salem Open semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Belgrade native\u00a0successfully defended his Rogers Cup trophy in Toronto (defeated Gasquet) and finished runner-up at the Western &amp; Southern Open in Cincinnati (lost to Federer) to earn 170 points.<\/p>\n<p>Nole is the eighth different player in nine years to win the Series since\u00a0Lleyton Hewitt\u00a0won the inaugural edition in 2004.\u00a0His best previous finish was a runner-up effort to\u00a0Mardy Fish\u00a0in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak clinched the Emirates Airline US Open Series trophy on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010669,101010632,101010682],"class_list":["post-34138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-us-open-2012en","tag-us-open-seriesen","tag-winner-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34138","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34138"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34148,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34138\/revisions\/34148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}