{"id":468136,"date":"2023-11-02T17:47:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=468136"},"modified":"2023-11-02T17:47:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T21:47:15","slug":"djokovic-had-to-fight-hard-to-get-to-paris-1-4-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-had-to-fight-hard-to-get-to-paris-1-4-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic had to fight hard to get to Paris 1\/4-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic is through to the quarter-finals of the Masters 1000 series tournament in Paris after defeating Talon Grikspoor 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 in a match that lasted 2 hours and 39 minutes. The Dutch player showed great play against the world number 1 and made him work hard to get his place in the last eight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Novak Djokovic on hostile crowds: &#8220;In fact, they are doing me a favour. The more they cheer against me, the better for me. They wake something in me that they perhaps don\u2019t want to see \u2013 a winner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>End result:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5TFdUzJHu6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5TFdUzJHu6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Danny \ud83d\udc0a (@DjokovicFan_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokovicFan_\/status\/1720195412022497557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic broke early in the first set and quickly took a 3-0 lead, but quickly conceded a break in the seventh game and Grikspoor managed to win 5 games in a row, winning another serve from the Serbian to close out the first set 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>In the second set, the two tennis players did not allow breaks and saved several breakpoints. In the tiebreak, Novak Djokovic was flawless and won it with 7:2 points.<\/p>\n<p>In the decisive third set, Novak Djokovic managed to break his opponent in the fifth game to lead 3:2, but Griekspoor also broke Djokovic&#8217;s serve to tie. Right afterwards the Serbian showed no mercy and broke again at 0:40 before finishing off the game.<\/p>\n<p>In the quarterfinals, Novak Djokovic will face Daniel Altmeier or Holger Rune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic is through to the quarter-finals of the Masters 1000 series tournament in Paris after defeating Talon Grikspoor 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":468137,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740,21939],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17855,21940],"acf":{"announce":"The world No.1 was set down, but turned the game around","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\/468136"}],"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=468136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468138,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468136\/revisions\/468138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468136"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=468136"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=468136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}