{"id":469217,"date":"2023-11-12T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T23:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469217"},"modified":"2023-11-12T19:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T23:30:03","slug":"djokovic-beats-rune-and-will-finish-the-year-as-world-number-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-beats-rune-and-will-finish-the-year-as-world-number-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic beats Rune and will finish the year as world number 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic, world number 1, won against world number 10, Holger Rune, 2-1 after an epic match that lasted more than 3 hours in Turin, which means that the Serbian will finish 2023 as world number 1 no matter what happens until the end of the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The point that sealed an EIGHTH year-end No.1 \ud83e\udd47<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DjokerNole<\/a> defeats Rune 7-6 6-7 6-3 for a 19th consecutive win! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NittoATPFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NittoATPFinals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XJgGeGhgsT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XJgGeGhgsT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1723842916173443142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both players converted 1 break in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set, and it was decided after a tiebreak, as Nole was able to win it 7-4 points.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened in the 2nd set as both Nole and Holger converted a break each, and again, the set was decided in a tiebreak. However, this time, the Scandinavian player dominated and won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 6 points in the tiebreak and closed the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set with 7-1 points.<\/p>\n<p>In the deciding set, Djokovic showed why he is the best player in the world and converted 2 break points from 4 opportunities while allowing only 1 break point to Rune, which he converted, but it was not enough for anything more than a 6-3 defeat in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Novak Djokovic secures the year-end #1 ranking<\/p>\n<p>This will be his 8th year-end #1 finish, extending his record for the most of all time<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd393 Grand Slam Titles<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd394 Grand Slam Finals<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39Back to world #1<\/p>\n<p>36 years old &amp; no slowing down<\/p>\n<p>Life in the fast-lane with Novak. \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nf3rFyFjaG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Nf3rFyFjaG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1723842297350013002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 12, 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 1, won against world number 10, Holger Rune, 2-1 after an epic match that lasted more than 3 hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":469218,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16741,16740,18069],"news_category":[16714,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[22048,18753,17855,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Nole won his opening match in Turin after 3 sets.","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\/469217"}],"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=469217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469220,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469217\/revisions\/469220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469217"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469217"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}