{"id":48531,"date":"2013-07-05T18:54:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T16:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=48531"},"modified":"2013-07-05T22:42:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T20:42:14","slug":"novak-reaches-11th-grand-slam-final-eyes-second-title-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-reaches-11th-grand-slam-final-eyes-second-title-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak reaches 11th Grand Slam final; eyes second title in London!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48524\" alt=\"Auto Draft\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wimbledon_08.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wimbledon_08.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wimbledon_08-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wimbledon_08-267x194.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Wimbledon<\/a> top seed, Novak Djokovic, progressed to his 11th Grand Slam final on Friday, with a thrilling 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-7 (6), 6-3 win over no.8 seed Juan Martin del Potro on Centre Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A gruelling 5-setter, the rematch of London 2012 Olympics bronze medal clash, required 4 hours and 43 minutes, and is the longest men&#8217;s semi-final in The Championships history.<\/p>\n<p>The previous longest SF was the 1989 encounter between Boris Becker and Ivan Lendl.<\/p>\n<p>Nole and Del Potro exchanged the first two sets before the Serb pulled out a tight third.\u00a0The Argentine hit back in the fourth-set tie-break to force a deciding final set.<\/p>\n<p>Play went with serve until 4-3 before Novak made a crucial break and gave himself a chance to serve for the victory. He saved a break point before winning a ferocious battle on his third match point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It was one of the best matches I&#8217;ve been a part of,&#8221;<\/strong> said the reigning Australian Open titlist. <strong>&#8220;I could not separate us, apart from when I was 2-1 and a break up &#8211; and I dropped serve. That&#8217;s why he&#8217;s a Grand Slam champion. He came up with some top shots, credit to him.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meeting for the 12th time (9-3), Djokovic won 83 per cent of his first service points and converted three of his 15 break point opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (22-4), double faults (2-4), winners (80-48), unforced errors (48-37), total points won (190-178).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will go for his second title at Wimbledon and seventh Major crown when he plays no.2 seed Andy Murray (11-7 career H2H record) on Sunday at 15.00 CET.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A first triumph at the All England Club (2011) saw him rise to world no.1.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xqbzWNF9eSc\" height=\"332\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole will play for his second Wimbledon title on Sunday (15.00 CET) when he meets no.2 seed Andy Murray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":48524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101010490,101010433,101012447],"class_list":["post-48531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-londonen","tag-semifinal-en","tag-wimbledon-2013-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48531","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=48531"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48540,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48531\/revisions\/48540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}