{"id":57099,"date":"2014-03-30T22:11:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=57099"},"modified":"2014-03-31T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:56:09","slug":"impressive-nole-wins-fourth-miami-masters-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/impressive-nole-wins-fourth-miami-masters-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Superior Nole masters Nadal to clinch fourth Miami crown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57128\" alt=\"Fenomenalni Novak pokorio i Majami, u finalu pao Nadal!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/miami2014_10.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/miami2014_10.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/miami2014_10-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/miami2014_10-267x202.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brilliant display from Novak &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyopentennis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">2014 Sony Open Tennis<\/a> Champion!<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.2 Novak Djokovic captured his fourth Miami Masters title on Sunday with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over top seed Rafael Nadal in one hour and 24 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic now has an 18-22 all-time mark against the Spaniard in 40 meetings &#8211; the most frequent Open Era match-up.<\/p>\n<p>Novak stamped his authority in the pair\u2019s 20th final encounter, breaking in the sixth game of the opening set for 6-3. He continued to display superb form in the second set, and with two breaks, in the first and ninth games, recorded his 30th match win at Crandon Park.<br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/899lWNVWM1s\" height=\"332\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a fantastic tournament, a very enjoyable time as it always is in Miami,&#8221;<\/strong> said Novak in his on-court interview. <strong>&#8220;I played a great match, from the start to the end everything was working really well. It&#8217;s always a challenge and a pleasure to play against Rafa. Back in 2007 I won my first big title here and I have the greatest memories from this centre court.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak won 83 % of points behind his first serve, and was a 6\/7 when approaching the net.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (4-2), double faults (0-1), winners (22-15), unforced errors (14-20), total points won (61-40).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fenomenalni Novak pokorio i Majami, u finalu pao Nadal!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/miami2014_09.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nole moved second in the all-time Miami winners list with victory today, surpassing Pete Sampras. The 26-year-old, who lifted the trophy in 2007 (d. Canas), 2011 (d. Nadal) and 2012 (d. Murray), became just the second player to win the Indian Wells-Miami title double for a second time (Roger Federer &#8211; 2005-06).<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star has now amassed 18 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 shields, his 43rd career title, second in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Novak switches his focus to the clay court season, as the ATP tour swings back to Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic will defend title at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montecarlotennismasters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters<\/a> (April 13-20), where he ended Nadal&#8217;s eight-year reign last year with a 6-2, 7-6(1) victory in the final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak clinched his 18th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title on Sunday with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over top seed Rafael Nadal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":57128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011061,101010437,101011399,101011398,101010505],"class_list":["post-57099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-champion-en","tag-final-en","tag-miami-2014-en","tag-sony-open-tennis-2014-en","tag-titleen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57099","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=57099"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57200,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57099\/revisions\/57200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}