{"id":433731,"date":"2023-04-21T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433731"},"modified":"2023-04-21T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:24:15","slug":"lajovic-eliminates-djokovic-in-straight-sets-in-banja-luka","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lajovic-eliminates-djokovic-in-straight-sets-in-banja-luka\/","title":{"rendered":"Lajovic eliminates Djokovic in straight sets in Banja Luka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dusan Lajovic, world number 70, beat the world number 1 Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-6 (6) in a match from the 1\/4 finals in Banja Luka.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The World No. 1 is upset by countryman Dusan Lajovic \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rc6Fj6RArd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rc6Fj6RArd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1649453230110244873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic had 16 chances to break his opponent&#8217;s serve in the game but converted only one. The most concerning thing for Nole, however, was that he used medical timeout twice. After 2 hours and 25 minutes on the court, Djokovic was beaten by Dusan without even winning a set.<\/p>\n<p>Lajovic will play in the 1\/2 finals of the clay tournament where his opponent will be Kecmanovic or Lehecka.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Du\u0161an Lajovi\u0107 on crowd support towards Novak and chants \u2018Nole, Nole\u2019: \u201cI ended up catching myself chanting it [Nole, Nole].\u201d<br \/>\nNovak is a lifelong friend and childhood idol. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SrpskaOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SrpskaOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c58KmoslSe\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/c58KmoslSe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marko Milenkovi\u0107 \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8 (@theMilenkovic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theMilenkovic\/status\/1649474669068648448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That was the 1st victory of the younger Serbian against Nole as in their previous two games Djokovic beat him in straight sets &#8211; 2018 in Monte Carlo on clay and 2015 in Doha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dusan Lajovic, world number 70, beat the world number 1 Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-6 (6) in a match from the 1\/4 finals in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18944,17855,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Dusan defeated his copatriot Novak in the quarterfinals.","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\/433731"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433733,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433731\/revisions\/433733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433731"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433731"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}