{"id":54318,"date":"2013-12-27T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=54318"},"modified":"2013-12-28T00:58:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T23:58:20","slug":"nole-to-face-ferrer-in-wtc-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-to-face-ferrer-in-wtc-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole to face Ferrer in third WTC final!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54311\" alt=\"Nole u tre\u0107em uzastopnom finalu &quot;Mubadala World Tennis Championship&quot;-a!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mubadala_02.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mubadala_02.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mubadala_02-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/mubadala_02-267x161.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>World no.2 Novak Djokovic successfully opened his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mubadalawtc.com\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Mubadala World Tennis Championship<\/a> title defence in Abu Dhabi on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian top player beat Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 (5), 6-3 in 74 minutes in the semi-finals at the Zayed Sports City tennis complex to set up final meeting with David Ferrer (d. Nadal 6-4, 6-4).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic and Tsonga exchanged breaks in the opening set. Novak won a tie-breaker 7-5 to take the lead.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Belgrade native took the momentum into the second set. He broke his opponent in the sixth game and consolidated it for 5-2. Nole closed out the match two games later firing three aces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTsonga was playing great, it was high-quality tennis and I\u2019m sure the fans enjoyed the game. I\u2019m satisfied with all that I did on court today,\u201d<\/strong> said Novak.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oBYvT8MIfiE\" height=\"332\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mubadala Tennis exhibition final is scheduled on Saturday at 14.00 CET.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole January 2014 Desktop Wallpaper <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Calendar_January2014.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.2 beat Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 (5), 6-3 in the semi-finals at the Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012218,101012333,101010437,101011348],"class_list":["post-54318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-abu-dhabi-en","tag-exhibition-en","tag-final-en","tag-mubadala-world-tennis-championship-2013-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54318","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=54318"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54339,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54318\/revisions\/54339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}