{"id":439802,"date":"2023-07-14T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439802"},"modified":"2023-07-14T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:48:41","slug":"clinical-djokovic-beats-sinner-to-reach-5th-straight-wimbledon-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/clinical-djokovic-beats-sinner-to-reach-5th-straight-wimbledon-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Djokovic beats Sinner to reach 5th straight Wimbledon final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic was nearly invincible in his 1\/2 final match against Jannik Sinner as he cruised past his Italian opponent 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4) to reach his 5th consecutive Wimbledon final on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE KING STILL REIGNS SUPREME!<\/p>\n<p>Novak Djokovic advances to his 9th <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> final with a straight-set win over Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>One match away from major title No. 24. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rTOd5Q6e99\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rTOd5Q6e99<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisChannel\/status\/1679875227734646784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The number two seed was dominant from start to finish and barring slight resistance in the final set from Sinner, the Serb was in full control of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic now awaits his opponent from the mouth-watering clash between Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev.<\/p>\n<p>One of them will try to stop the Serb from clinching his record-equalling 8th title at Wimbledon, which will also equal the all-time record of 24 major titles.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a record 35th Grand Slam final appearance after the 36-year-old surpassed the tally he previously shared with American Chris Evert.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No one has played on the final Sunday of a Grand Slam more than Novak Djokovic! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uU3Li9KmsR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/uU3Li9KmsR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1679875438527627264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has not lost a completed match at Wimbledon since 2016 and has not been beaten on Centre Court since 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic was nearly invincible in his 1\/2 final match against Jannik Sinner as he cruised past his Italian opponent 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439805,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17625,16740,17072],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[18543,17855,6273],"acf":{"announce":"The Serb was merciless and pounced on every mistake his opponent made","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\/439802"}],"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=439802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439802"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439802"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}