{"id":476876,"date":"2024-01-26T03:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T07:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476876"},"modified":"2024-01-26T03:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T07:25:01","slug":"sinner-shocks-djokovic-to-advance-to-australian-open-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sinner-shocks-djokovic-to-advance-to-australian-open-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner shocks Djokovic to advance to Australian Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner, world number 4, defeated world number 1 and 10-time champion, Novak Djokovic, 3-1 sets in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> semifinal in the Australian Open today and will play for the title on Sunday as that will be the Italian first Grand Slam final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc07\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc05\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc12\ud835\udc13 \ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc18\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc11 \ud835\udc13\ud835\udc0e \ud835\udc01\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc13 \ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0a \ud835\udc03\ud835\udc09\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0a\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc02 \ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d \ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0d \ud835\udc00\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc12\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0d \ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0d \ud835\udc12\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc08-\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0b \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>Jannik Sinner makes history en route to reaching his first-ever Grand Slam final \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/88MnpBVAmu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/88MnpBVAmu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurosport (@eurosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport\/status\/1750779804545114124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Everything started phenomenally for Sinner, and he won the 1st 2 sets in the match, allowing his opponent to win only 3 games in them \u2013 1 game in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set and 2 games in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, things looked competitive as both players failed to break each other, and the set was decided after a tiebreak. Djokovic found a way to win it by 8-6 points and win his 1<sup>st<\/sup> set in the \u00bd final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jannik Sinner is the 1st player to beat Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open in 6 years.<\/p>\n<p>2195 days.<\/p>\n<p>A remarkable streak, ended at the hands of a truly remarkable player.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TNXlQUaGpD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TNXlQUaGpD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1750778562746187781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Jannik showed his best game from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> two sets in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> set, and 1 break was enough for the Italian to win the set and the match. Nole finished the match without a single break-point opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Jannik will play in the final against Medvedev or Zverev, which will play in an hour.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jannik Sinner after beating Novak Djokovic to reach first Grand Slam Final:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very tough match. I started really well. He missed for 2 sets. I felt like he wasn\u2019t feeling great. I tried to keep pushing. In set 3 I had match point but I missed a forehand. This is tennis.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bIW7qgNX9L\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bIW7qgNX9L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1750780357220458527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 26, 2024<\/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>Jannik Sinner, world number 4, defeated world number 1 and 10-time champion, Novak Djokovic, 3-1 sets in the 1st semifinal in the Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":476877,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[5443,17625,16740,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[2469,18543,17855,18071],"acf":{"announce":"The Italian beat his Serbian opponent 3-1 sets and reached his 1st major final.","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\/476876"}],"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=476876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476880,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476876\/revisions\/476880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476876"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476876"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}