{"id":394674,"date":"2022-11-20T17:40:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T22:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394674"},"modified":"2022-11-20T17:40:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T22:40:35","slug":"djokovic-wins-sixth-atp-finals-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-wins-sixth-atp-finals-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic wins sixth ATP Finals title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic defeated Casper Ruud 7-5, 6-3 to conquer the ATP Finals for a record-tying sixth time, adding this year&#8217;s title to his previous triumphs at the season-ending championships in 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6C\ud83c\udfc6H\ud83c\udfc6A\ud83c\udfc6M\ud83c\udfc6P\ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DjokerNole<\/a> captures a record-tying SIXTH year-end singles trophy defeating Ruud 7-5 6-3 in Torino.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NittoATPFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NittoATPFinals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rT6q3b5Wjx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rT6q3b5Wjx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1594416856445485056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian also became the first player ever to win the ATP Finals in three different decades\u2014the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeven years, it\u2019s been a long time,\u201d Djokovic said the final in the Italian city of Torino.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tara in the trophy \ud83d\ude02<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NittoATPFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NittoATPFinals<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DjokerNole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K9VsuOweBZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/K9VsuOweBZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1594445196678549504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, at the same time, the fact that I waited seven years makes this victory even sweeter, and even bigger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the finals &#8211; usually these matches are decided on very small margins, and one break was enough in both sets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew Casper was playing really well coming into this match. I think we both served very well. I think in some decisive moments, like in that 12th game of the first set, I just managed to put a few returns back in play, make him run, make him play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was really pleased with the way I was playing from the back of the court. With my forehand I was looking to be very aggressive, and it worked great.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really pleased with the performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic defeated Casper Ruud 7-5, 6-3 to conquer the ATP Finals for a record-tying sixth time, adding this year&#8217;s title to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16864,16863,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Serbian became the first player ever to win the ATP Finals in three different decades","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394674"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394674"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}