{"id":820,"date":"2009-05-02T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:37:08","slug":"nole-downs-federer-final-vs-rafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-downs-federer-final-vs-rafa\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole downs Federer! Final vs Rafa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/190.jpg> {nl}{nl}Defending champion and third-seeded Novak Djokovic fought back from a set and a break down to defeat world no.2 Swiss Roger Federer 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in 2 hours and 9 minutes to book his place in the finals of the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia for the second consecutive year.{nl}{nl}Djokovic saved two break points in the opening game of the match. Three unforced errors from Novak and an ace from the Swiss brought a love game to Federer. Both players held their services til 4-4 when Federer used the third break point to go 5-4 up. Roger served it out for the first set and closed it 6-4.{nl}{nl}World no.2 used a lapse in concentration from Djokovic and made a break in the opening game of the second set. Novak was down 1-2 when the match was suspended due to rain. That break helped him regain his momentum and self-confidence and he exploded in the rest of the set. From 1-3 down Nole broke Federer\u2019s service twice to win five games in a row and take the second set 6-3.{nl}{nl}The Swiss started the third set with a love service game. He broke Novak\u2019s service in the fourth game to go 3-1 up, but the Serb rebroke immediately and then held to equalise to 3-3. Djokovic used his second chance for a break in the seventh game and turned around the result to 4-3. The defending champion then increased his lead to 5-3 and broke his opponent\u2019s service once again to win the set 6-3.{nl}{nl}Djokovic served 3 aces to Federer\u2019s 6.{nl}The Serb hit 31 winners to Federer\u2019s 28, and made 39 unforced errors, 3 less than his opponent.{nl}Nole capitalised on 5 of his 8 break points, while Roger converted 3 of his 11 chances for break.{nl}{nl}Novak will play against world no.1 Rafael Nadal in the finals of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Rome (clay, 2.750.000 euros). The Spaniard beat Chilean Fernando Gonzalez 6-3 6-3.{nl}{nl}The final match is scheduled on Sunday at 4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion and third-seeded Novak Djokovic fought back from a set and a break down to defeat world no.2 Swiss Roger Federer 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in 2 hours and 9 minutes to book his place in the finals of the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011890],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-rome-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28450,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/28450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}