{"id":458316,"date":"2023-09-06T08:49:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T04:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458316"},"modified":"2023-09-06T08:49:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T04:49:18","slug":"djokovic-leaves-fritz-no-chance-and-reaches-last-four-at-us-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-leaves-fritz-no-chance-and-reaches-last-four-at-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic leaves Fritz no chance and reaches last four at US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic didn&#8217;t let Taylor Fritz to even think about beating him at the US Open 1\/4-finals, breezing past him 6-1 6-4 6-4 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Once again the heat was a key factor as at some point they were reaching 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius), but that didn&#8217;t stand in Djokovic&#8217;s way to improve even further his record against Fritz that now shows 8-0.<\/p>\n<p>The win made Djokovic the tennis player with the most semi-finals in Grand Slam tournaments &#8211; 47. Roger Federer is second in the prestigious ranking with 46 semi-finals, and Rafael Nadal has been in the top 4 of Slam tournaments 38 times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Top two and he&#8217;s not two.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only 1\u20e3 Novak Djokovic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6bss3f61hF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6bss3f61hF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1699157868300435689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic quickly showed Fritz that he would not allow any surprises in the eighth match between them. The 36-year-old Serbian lost only one game in the opening set, and in the second part he saved 4 break points at 2:1 in his favor and did not lose the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The third set was tied at 3:3 when Djokovic broke. A re-break ensued, and Nole got angry with one of his staff and ordered him out of the stands. Fritz did not take advantage of the 23-time Grand Slam winner&#8217;s slump. The American allowed himself to be broken again, and then Djokovic closed out the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Novak Djokovic is 36 years old and has every big record in tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Yet look at how much it all still means to him.<\/p>\n<p>The passion. The determination. The defiance.<\/p>\n<p>Never change, Novak.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OPs4dKWYLl\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OPs4dKWYLl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Danny \ud83d\udc0a (@DjokovicFan_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokovicFan_\/status\/1699230369630011788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian, who is seeded No. 2 in the tournament, saved 10 of a total of 12 break points. For his part, Fritz won just 28% of second serve points.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d0V3bryMRqE?si=sKW3VDMx7j0kDzJn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic didn&#8217;t let Taylor Fritz to even think about beating him at the US Open 1\/4-finals, breezing past him 6-1 6-4 6-4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":458319,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740,17410,4051],"news_category":[16714,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17855,18177,1891],"acf":{"announce":"The Serbian has now played at 47 Grand Slam semi-finals - more than any other","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\/458316"}],"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=458316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458321,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458316\/revisions\/458321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458316"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458316"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}