{"id":395844,"date":"2023-01-27T06:16:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T11:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395844"},"modified":"2023-01-29T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T14:09:17","slug":"djokovic-blows-away-paul-to-reach-10th-final-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-blows-away-paul-to-reach-10th-final-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic blows away Paul to reach 10th final in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic made 39 unforced errors but proved too strong for American first-time semi-finalists Tommy Paul on Friday as the winner of 21 Grand Slam titles cruised into his 10th Australian Open with a comfortable 7-5, 6-2, 6-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>The Serb, reaching a Grand Slam final for the 33th time, will now play Stefanos Tsitsipas, who secured a place in the Sunday&#8217;s final after beating Russian Karen Khachanov.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NOVAK IS GOING FOR 10 \ud83c\udfc6 \ud83d\udc40<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DjokerNole<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpen<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AO2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4r3pfX0AxU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4r3pfX0AxU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1618928231901724676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1r4piww64xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".1r4piww64xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">Greece&#8217;s Tsitsipas lost to 35-year-old Djokovic in the 2021 French Open final and now has the opportunity to avenge that loss in his first appearance in the Australian Open showpiece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1r4piww64xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".1r4piww64xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">But to lift the trophy on Sunday, he must become the first player to beat the Serbian at Melbourne Park since 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1r4piww64xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".1r4piww64xo.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">Djokovic, who beat Paul to set a new landmark of 27 consecutive wins, is aiming for a record-extending 10th title which would equal Rafael Nadal&#8217;s tally of 22 major men&#8217;s titles.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpen<\/a> semifinals: \u2714\ufe0f\u2714\ufe0f\u2714\ufe0f\u2714\ufe0f\u2714\ufe0f\u2714\ufe0f\u2714\ufe0f\u2714\ufe0f\u2714\ufe0f\u2714\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpen<\/a> finals: \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\u2753<\/p>\n<p>Will X mark the spot for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DjokerNole<\/a> on Sunday?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wwos<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@espn<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@eurosport<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wowowtennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wowowtennis<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AO2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lcx6Wnm3dT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lcx6Wnm3dT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1618929141914419201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".4pvgyym99m.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-63d3b2b1267de80d2199f1b0.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">&#8220;It means everything at this stage of my career. I need that energy [from the fans] and I&#8217;m really thankful that I have enough gas in my legs to play at this level on one of the greatest tennis courts in the world,&#8221; Djokovic said.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".4pvgyym99m.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-63d3b2b1267de80d2199f1b0.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">&#8220;It&#8217;s great, and perfect and 100%. Yeah &#8211; we&#8217;ll say against Stefanos in two days! Of course, you are not as fresh as at the beginning of the tournament, but we put in a lot of of hours in the off season. I know what&#8217;s expected and I have been in so many positions in my career.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".4pvgyym99m.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-63d3b2b1267de80d2199f1b0.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a great battle, with yourself and the opponent. Long rallies and you could feel the heavy legs in the first set but I was fortunate to hold my nerves. After that I was swinging through the ball more and I am just pleased to get through another final.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic made 39 unforced errors but proved too strong for American first-time semi-finalists Tommy Paul on Friday as the winner of 21 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395845,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740,17249,17245],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Serb will meet Greek Tsitsipas for the trophy","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\/395844"}],"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=395844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395844"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395844"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}