{"id":437407,"date":"2023-06-06T13:45:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437407"},"modified":"2023-06-06T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:45:19","slug":"djokovic-goes-through-after-difficult-win-over-khachanov","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-goes-through-after-difficult-win-over-khachanov\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic goes through after difficult win over Khachanov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic has managed to come through a difficult challenge from Karen Khachanov and progressed to the French Open 1\/2 finals 4-6, 7-6 (0), 6-2, 6-4 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nice hug between Novak Djokovic &amp; Khachanov<\/p>\n<p>Listen to that crowd. He was being booed at the start of the week<\/p>\n<p>When he plays this well, he\u2019s too good to ignore. <\/p>\n<p>The definition of letting the racquet do the talking. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ddBfia5nq2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ddBfia5nq2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1666127507240943616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serb had to work hard as his stubborn opponent claimed the opening set. A near perfect Djokovic saw him claim the tie-break in the second to tie the match.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed that from then on the world No.3 rediscovered his well known form as he didn&#8217;t give his opponent too many chances, clinching the last 2 sets with relative ease.<\/p>\n<p>With his victory Djokovic now has 45 Grand Slam 1\/2 finals, only 1 behind the record holder Roger Federer with 46.<\/p>\n<p>The Serb will eagerly await his next opponent, who may well be Carlos Alcaraz &#8211; a long-awaited 1\/2 final. The Spaniard faces No.5 Stefanos Tsitsipas in the last 1\/4 final of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic has managed to come through a difficult challenge from Karen Khachanov and progressed to the French Open 1\/2 finals 4-6, 7-6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":437408,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19432,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[19433,17855],"acf":{"announce":"The Serb had to come from behind after dropping the first set","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\/437407"}],"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=437407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437407"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437407"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}