{"id":882,"date":"2009-08-23T03:28:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T02:28:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:28:13","slug":"nole-downs-rafa-faces-federer-in-cincy-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-downs-rafa-faces-federer-in-cincy-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole downs Rafa! Faces Federer in Cincy finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/275.jpg> {nl}{nl}World number four Novak Djokovic powered into the finals of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati with a fantastic 6-1 6-4 win over second-seeded Rafael Nadal in 1 hour and 32 minutes.{nl}{nl}Djokovic started the match very well. Number four seed performed great tennis and earned himself a break point in the fourth game. He broke Nadal\u2019s service with a backhand passing shot winner, and then held to increase his lead to 4-1. The Serb was playing very well and agressively, forcing errors from the world no.3. He made another break in the sixth game and served out the set 6-1 in 29 minutes.{nl}{nl}Novak failed to capitalise on three break points in the opening game of the second set. He earned another chance in the fifth game and used it to go up 3-2. The 22-year old faced scare in the eighth game when he handed Nadal his first break point with a cross court backhand into the top of the net, but saved it with a forehand winner and held for 5-3. Djokovic used his second match point in the tenth game and booked himself a place in the finals.{nl}{nl}This was their 19th match, Nadal leads 14-5.{nl}{nl}Djokovic served 5 aces to Nadal\u2019s 1.{nl}He hit 21 winners to his opponent\u2019s 10. Both players made 26 unforced errors.{nl}The Serb capitalised on 3 of his 6 break points, while the Spaniard failed to convert the only chance he had.{nl}{nl}Nole will face world no.1 Roger Federer in the finals on Sunday. The Swiss defeated the defending champion Andy Murray in straight sets 6-2 7-6(8).{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Federer have played 11 times, Roger leads 7-4 (5-3 on hard). Novak won both matches in 2009, in Miami and Rome.{nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player is chasing his 14th career title, and third of the season (Dubai, Belgrade).{nl}{nl}Good luck Nole!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number four Novak Djokovic powered into the finals of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati with a fantastic 6-1 6-4 win over second-seeded Rafael Nadal in 1 hour and 32 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011944],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-cincinnati-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","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=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28390,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/28390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}