{"id":455534,"date":"2023-08-19T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T08:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455534"},"modified":"2023-08-19T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T08:53:41","slug":"djokovic-trashes-fritz-and-reaches-cincinnati-semis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-trashes-fritz-and-reaches-cincinnati-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic trashes Fritz and reaches Cincinnati semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic, world number 2, absolutely destroyed world number 9, Taylor Fritz, 2-0 sets for only 1 hour and 2 minutes and will play in the \u00bd finals at the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">75 &#8211; With victory over Taylor Fritz, Novak Djokovic has reached his 75th ATP Masters 1000 semi-final. Since the format began in 1990, Djokovic is only the second player to reach 75 or more, after Rafael Nadal (76). Esteemed.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CincyTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CincyTennis<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CincyTennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CincyTennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@atptour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATPMediaInfo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ATPMediaInfo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EckyPy2vqg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EckyPy2vqg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1692720695900561760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nole triumphed in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set 6-0 for only 21 minutes. Djokovic converted 2 break points from 2 chances in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set and won 6-4 for 41 minutes after Fritz also broke his opponent\u2019s serve once, but it was not enough for the American to even force the set to a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>That was the 7<sup>th<\/sup> head-to-head clash between Novak and Taylor, and the Serbian won all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic will play against world number 17, Alexander Zverev, in the \u00bd finals in Cincinnati as the Serbian is the favorite.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Novak Djokovic was asked if he feels he\u2019s getting stronger with each match:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s something I\u2019m wishing for. That every day I raise the bar slightly more the level of tennis. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening actually during the tournament. I played 3 great matches. Each day has been a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TT27VJD4jf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TT27VJD4jf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1692721662695751957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 19, 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 2, absolutely destroyed world number 9, Taylor Fritz, 2-0 sets for only 1 hour and 2 minutes and will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":455535,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740,17410,18069],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[17855,18177,18071],"acf":{"announce":"The Serbian won the match for a little over an hour.","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\/455534"}],"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=455534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455534"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455534"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}