{"id":57052,"date":"2014-03-28T19:36:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T18:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=57052"},"modified":"2014-03-30T11:21:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T09:21:44","slug":"novak-reaches-sony-open-tennis-final-with-walkover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-reaches-sony-open-tennis-final-with-walkover\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak, Rafa receive walkovers into Sony Open Tennis final"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nole<\/p>\n

Nole is through to his fifth Miami Masters final.<\/p>\n

Second seed in Key Biscayne Novak Djokovic moved on to the finals of the Sony Open Tennis<\/a> on Friday after his semi-final opponent Kei Nishikori of Japan (20) withdrew from the tournament with a left groin injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Djokovic also received a walkover in the third round when Florian Mayer withdrew. En-route to his 28th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 final and 64th overall, Novak beat Jeremy Chardy, Tommy Robredo and Andy Murray.<\/p>\n

The world no.2 will bid for his fourth Miami title on Sunday against the top-ranked Rafael Nadal who advanced after no.7 seed Tomas Berdych pulled out from their semi-final clash due to gastroenteritis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novak has 17 wins in 39 matches against the Spaniard. He won their last two meetings, the most recent in the title match at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals<\/a> (6-3, 6-4).<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Belgrade native is looking for his 30th win on the hardcourts at Crandon Park. He lifted the winner\u2019s trophy in 2007, 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n

Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Second seed in Key Biscayne moved on to the finals on Friday after his semi-final opponent Kei Nishikori (JPN, 20) withdrew from the tournament with a left groin injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":57042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101010437,101011399,101011398],"class_list":["post-57052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-final-en","tag-miami-2014-en","tag-sony-open-tennis-2014-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57052","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=57052"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57072,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57052\/revisions\/57072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}