{"id":395848,"date":"2023-01-29T09:08:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T14:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395848"},"modified":"2023-01-29T09:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T14:13:01","slug":"djokovic-sinks-tsitsipas-to-lift-his-10th-australian-open-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-sinks-tsitsipas-to-lift-his-10th-australian-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic sinks Tsitsipas to lift 10th Australian Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic claimed a record-extending 10th title at the Australian Open with a 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5) victory against Stefanos Tsitsipas to level Rafael Nadal&#8217;s all-time record for most Grand Slam men&#8217;s singles titles with 22.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">KING OF MELBOURNE \ud83d\udc51 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DjokerNole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/myM619PTVN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/myM619PTVN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1619662189547356160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian, who also returned to the top of the world ranking, dropped just one set all tournament despite saying he feared a left hamstring problem might force him to withdraw.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic finished with a superb win over first-time Melbourne finalist Tsitsipas to become the fifth player to win 22 Grand Slam singles titles, after Margaret Court (24), Serena Williams (23), and Steffi Graf and Nadal (both 22).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_C050F147-A443-B1C8-618F-FD748DC11EF6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Last year, the 35-year-old Serb was unable to defend his title after being deported from the country over his COVIDbe-19 vaccination status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_C050F147-A443-B1C8-618F-FD748DC11EF6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">This year at Melbourne Park, he has had a hamstring injury and had to deal with the fallout of his father, Srdjan, being filmed with a group of Russian supporters at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_98D3B0A1-DF95-9ECD-417A-FD761C4A16B1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">During the presentation ceremony, Djokovic described this win as \u201cthe biggest victory of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_67F3FBA3-8912-ABAB-0E2C-FD7438A8C93F@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">\u201cThis has been one of the more challenging tournaments I\u2019ve ever played in my life, considering the circumstances,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_0AEAF24F-8108-CF23-7B6E-FD75A9D04353@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">\u201cNot playing last year, coming back this year. I want to thank all the people who made me feel welcome, made me feel comfortable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_0AEAF24F-8108-CF23-7B6E-FD75A9D04353@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">&#8220;Only the team and family knows what we\u2019ve been through these last four to five weeks and this is the biggest victory of my life considering those circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic claimed a record-extending 10th title at the Australian Open with a 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5) victory against Stefanos Tsitsipas to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395849,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740,17249],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Serbian described this win as \u201cthe biggest victory of my life\u201d","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\/395848"}],"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=395848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395848"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395848"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}