Shanghai Rolex Masters<\/a> trophy and 15th ATP Masters 1000 title when he beat no.6 seed Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (3) in Sunday finals.<\/strong><\/p>\nIt is Nole`s 39th career crown and fifth in 2013 (Australian Open, Dubai, Monte Carlo, Beijing).<\/p>\n
The match lasted two hours and 32 minutes.<\/p>\n
Novak raced to a 5-0 lead in the opening set, breaking Del Potro in the second and fourth games. He served out the set 6-1.<\/p>\n
The Argentine converted his break point chance in the second game of the second set and kept the advantage to take it 6-3.<\/p>\n
Djokovic had two break\/match points in the 10th game of the deciding final set, but Del Potro fended off both and forced a tie-breaker. Nole won it 7-3 to remain unbeaten in his last 20 matches in China.<\/p>\n
“The whole third set was give and take. I was break points down, he was break points down. Just in the important moments I managed to play some better shots than he did,”<\/strong> Novak said. “I was fortunate and I am just really glad to win the title.”<\/strong><\/p>\nThe 26-year-old Monte Carlo resident landed 79% of his first service points and was 18\/19 on net approaches.<\/p>\n
Match statistics<\/span>: aces (10-5), double faults (0-2), winners (47-34), unforced errors (26-29), total points won (101-88).<\/p>\nNovak now has a 62-9 (41-5 on hard) record on the season and five titles in seven finals.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nThe world no.2 <\/strong>will next play at the BNP Paribas Masters event, taking place in Paris from October 28 to November 3.<\/strong><\/p>\nPhoto: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak won his 39th career crown and 15h Masters trophy when he beat Juan Martin del Potro 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (3) in Shanghai Masters final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":52212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011061,101012345,101012348,101011297,101010505],"class_list":["post-52192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-champion-en","tag-china-en","tag-shanghai-en","tag-shanghai-rolex-masters-2013-en","tag-titleen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52192","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=52192"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52253,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52192\/revisions\/52253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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