{"id":455337,"date":"2023-08-17T11:32:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455337"},"modified":"2023-08-17T11:32:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T07:32:39","slug":"djokovic-earns-victory-in-cincinnati-on-his-return-in-us","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-earns-victory-in-cincinnati-on-his-return-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic earns victory in Cincinnati on his return in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic was triumphant against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who had to withdraw with back issues after one set at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Novak Djokovic advances in Cincinnati after Davidovich Fokina retires due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you a speedy recovery! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexdavidovich1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@alexdavidovich1<\/a> \ud83d\udc99<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CincyTennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CincyTennis<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CincyTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CincyTennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AaspKoOBHm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AaspKoOBHm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1691969099805688233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic hadn&#8217;t played a single game in the US for 2 years due to Covid restrictions, but the Serb came back to his pivotal best.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-times Grand Slam winner clinched the first set 6-4, before Fokina was forced to retire with back injury.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Serb&#8217;s first singles victory at Cincinnati Open since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Time flies. Four years seems like it was yesterday. It&#8217;s definitely nice to be back,&#8221; said the world number two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I played well in the past and was really glad to have a chance to come back to the States. It&#8217;s been two years &#8211; I missed it. Some of the biggest tournaments in our sport are played on American soil. I&#8217;m just excited to play some tennis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic will now face Gael Monfils in the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic was triumphant against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who had to withdraw with back issues after one set at the Cincinnati Open. Novak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":455338,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19688,20962,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[19689,20963,17855],"acf":{"announce":"The Serb was at his best as he defeated Alejandro Davidovich Fokina","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\/455337"}],"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=455337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455337"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455337"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}