{"id":428260,"date":"2023-03-03T12:47:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428260"},"modified":"2023-03-03T12:50:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:50:33","slug":"medvedev-ends-djokovics-winning-streak-to-set-up-all-russian-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/medvedev-ends-djokovics-winning-streak-to-set-up-all-russian-final\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u0435dvedev ends Djokovic&#8217;s winning streak to set up all-Russian final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniiel Medvedev defeated Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4 on Friday, handing the world number one&#8217;s first loss of the year, to reach the Dubai Tennis Championships&#8217; final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Miraculous from Medvedev \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>This titanic duel has just produced THE point of the week!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DDFTennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DDFTennis<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DDFTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DDFTennis<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaniilMedwed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DaniilMedwed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/buAD8xvFef\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/buAD8xvFef<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1631703532356108311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The third seed stood deep behind the baseline to soak up the Serbian\u2019s ball-striking and sealed the victory in one hour and 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev committed just 12 unforced errors compared to 38 from Djokovic, unbeaten in 20 games since November, and he was rapid around the court, chasing down a number of drop shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you play against Novak you just have to play your best,\u201d Medvedev said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKind of hope he doesn\u2019t play his best on the day because when he plays his best, well he has 22 Grand Slams, so even if you play your best, it is going to be tough, not sure you win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI managed to play a higher level than him today. In the second set I didn\u2019t face one break point, but there were so many 30\/30 games. But I managed to stay composed, and I am happy to be in the final tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev will play against his compatriot Andrey Rublev in tomorrow&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniiel Medvedev defeated Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4 on Friday, handing the world number one&#8217;s first loss of the year, to reach the Dubai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17869,17539,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He reached his third final in three weeks","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\/428260"}],"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=428260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428260"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428260"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}