{"id":70127,"date":"2015-06-07T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=70127"},"modified":"2015-06-08T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T07:54:49","slug":"wawrinka-dashes-novaks-french-open-title-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/wawrinka-dashes-novaks-french-open-title-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawrinka dashes Novak&#8217;s French Open title hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70174\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rg2015_20.jpg\" alt=\"in the Men's Singles Final against on day fifteen of the 2015 French Open at Roland Garros on June 7, 2015 in Paris, France.\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rg2015_20.jpg 594w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rg2015_20-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rg2015_20-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rg2015_20-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rg2015_20-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rg2015_20-590x393.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic suffered a tough 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 4-6 defeat to no.8 seed Stanislas Wawrinka in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Garros<\/a> final on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Serb was aiming to win his first French Open title and become the eighth man in history to complete the career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>Novak broke in the seventh game and held for 5-3. After saving a break point with an ace, Djokovic clinched the first set in 43 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Wawrinka evened match at one set apiece breaking the Belgrade native in the 10th game.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss kept the momentum going. He capitalised on his break point chance in the sixth game of the third set and sealed it three games later.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic broke early in the fourth set and consolidated for 3-0 lead, but Wawrinka won 12 of the next 15 points, breaking back to level at 3-all. The Serb earned three break points in the eighth game but failed to convert. He got broken in the very next game and Stan served out the match, saving a break point before finishing with a backhand winner down the line.<\/p>\n<p>Wawrinka, who captured his second Grand Slam trophy, was warmly congratulated by Nole. The fearless Swiss became the sixth former RG boys&#8217; champion to win the men&#8217;s title. There was a special and prolonged ovation for Nole, who was moved by the reception he received on Court Philippe Chatrier. A round of applause continued for at least a couple of minutes as he received the runners-up plate from three-time winner Gustavo Kuerten.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DBmhBvpOI30\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Congratulations to Stan. <strong>It is not easy to stand here as a runner-up again, but I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win<\/strong>,&#8221; <\/strong>said Novak.<strong> &#8220;I want to thank my team, my wife and the French public. I will be back next year to try again to win the title.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is the third time that Djokovic has finished runner-up in Paris, having fallen to Rafael Nadal in the 2012 and 2014 finals.<\/p>\n<p><u>Match statistics<\/u>: aces (6-9), double faults (0-3), winners (30-60), unforced errors (41-45), total points won (117-137).<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of days off, Novak will start preparing for the third Major event of the season, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a> (June 29-July 12), where he won his second Championships trophy last year beating seven-time former champion Roger Federer in the final 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No.8 seed Stan Wawrinka denied Novak career Grand Slam dream with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 victory in Roland Garros final on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":70175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010437,101010469,101012260,101011665,1526,101011672],"class_list":["post-70127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-final-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris-en","tag-roland-garros-2015-en","tag-runner-up","tag-stan-wawrinka-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70127","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=70127"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70288,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70127\/revisions\/70288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}