{"id":437165,"date":"2023-06-02T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437165"},"modified":"2023-06-02T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T17:22:44","slug":"nole-suffers-but-eliminates-fokina-at-the-french-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nole-suffers-but-eliminates-fokina-at-the-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole suffers but eliminates Fokina at the French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic, world number 3, won against world number 34 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina by 3-0 sets, but the match lasted more than 3 hours and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Like a BOSS \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolandGarros<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rAolGvgnA9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rAolGvgnA9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/1664676637508501505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> two sets after tiebreaks as each of these sets was played for 1 hour and 25 minutes. The Spaniard had a chance to win both sets, but Djokovic showed why he is the best player in history and, with his experience, ended up winning them.<\/p>\n<p>Nole won 6-2 in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set as he broke Fokina&#8217;s serve twice and a lot harder than expected, closing the match in straight sets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A new milestone: This was the longest *straight-sets* win of Novak Djokovic&#8217;s career at Grand Slam level \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>3 hours 36 minutes &#8211; 2023 Roland-Garros R3 vs ADF<\/p>\n<p>3 hours 16 minutes &#8211; 2018 US Open final vs Del Potro <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/90YAF1cvur\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/90YAF1cvur<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bastien Fachan (@BastienFachan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BastienFachan\/status\/1664677406618025987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian will face Varillas or Hurkacz in the 1\/8 finals at Roland-Garros.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;They shouldn&#8217;t boo him because that helps him!&#8221; \ud83e\udd2b<\/p>\n<p>Mats Wilander on \ud835\udc13\ud835\udc07\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc13 Novak Djokovic celebration. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolandGarros<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Babsschett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Babsschett<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AXDjo8MxOX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AXDjo8MxOX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurosport (@eurosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport\/status\/1664680452458676228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic, world number 3, won against world number 34 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina by 3-0 sets, but the match lasted more than 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437166,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19688,19432,16740],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[19689,19433,17855],"acf":{"announce":"Djokovic had to play his best tennis.","video":["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\/437165"}],"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=437165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437165"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437165"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}