{"id":455941,"date":"2023-08-21T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455941"},"modified":"2023-08-21T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:35:07","slug":"djokovic-says-cincinnati-final-is-his-toughest-match-ever","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-says-cincinnati-final-is-his-toughest-match-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic says Cincinnati final is his &#8216;toughest match ever&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic made an emotional comment on his win over Carlos Alcaraz at the Cincinnati Masters final that lasted nearly 4 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to describe. It&#8217;s crazy, I don&#8217;t know what to say. Overall, it was one of the hardest and most exciting matches I&#8217;ve ever played in my life. From start to finish, we both went through highs and drops, incredible points and bad games, heat strokes, comebacks&#8221;, the Serbian said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Djokovic to Carlos Alcaraz in Cincinnati:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoy, you never give up man. Jesus Christ. I love that about you. But sometimes I wish you\u2019d maybe play a few points like this..\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlos: \u201cSpanish never die\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Novak: I\u2019ve heard that before. Or I\u2019ve experienced this before.\u201d \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Xwj3bEh57\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8Xwj3bEh57<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1693426646538490200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8220;Carlos is an exceptional player, I have a lot of respect for him&#8221;, said Djokovic. &#8220;I never doubted that I could win the match in the most crucial moments,&#8221; added Djokovic, who concluded that his rivalry with Alcaraz &#8220;is getting bigger&#8221; despite the age difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic made an emotional comment on his win over Carlos Alcaraz at the Cincinnati Masters final that lasted nearly 4 hours. &#8220;It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":455963,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16732,20962,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17857,20963,17855],"acf":{"announce":"The Serbian made a great comeback against the world No.1","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\/455941"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455941"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455941"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}