{"id":768,"date":"2009-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:43:38","slug":"tsonga-downs-djokovic-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/tsonga-downs-djokovic-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsonga downs Djokovic again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/135.jpg>{nl}{nl}For the fourth time in a row Novak didn&#8217;t find a solution for Tsonga&#8217;s game.{nl}{nl}The Frenchman advanced to the finals of the tournament in Marseille after defeating number one seed in two sets, 6:4 7:6(1) in 84 minutes.{nl}{nl}No.4 seed was unstoppable during the whole match.{nl}{nl}There were no breaks in the first six games of the opening set. Tsonga earned a break point in the seventh game, and converted it to go up 4:3. He then held to increase his lead to 5:3. At 5:4, Novak had 0-40 on his opponent&#8217;s service and a chance to get back into the set, but the Frenchman hit five atomic services to take the set 6:4.{nl}{nl}Djokovic saved two break points in the seventh game of the second set. Both players held their services, and the set went to a tie-breaker. Tsonga dominated and won it 7-1.{nl}{nl}Novak got 70 ATP points and 25,900 euros for reaching the semifinals of the Open 13 tournament.{nl}{nl}He will play in Dubai next week. Nadal and Federer withdrew, and Nole will be no.1 seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth time in a row Novak didn&#8217;t find a solution for Tsonga&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011750],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-marseille-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28493,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/28493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}