{"id":483826,"date":"2024-06-03T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T19:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483826"},"modified":"2024-06-03T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T19:07:03","slug":"djokovic-with-an-epic-comeback-to-eliminate-cerundolo-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-with-an-epic-comeback-to-eliminate-cerundolo-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic with an epic comeback to eliminate Cerundolo in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic, world number 1, survived and beat world number 27, Francisco Cerundolo, 3-2 sets after trailing 2-1 sets for almost 4 hours and 40 minutes on the court, and the Serbian advanced to the quarterfinals in Roland-Garros.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2728 370 match won in Grand Slam<br \/>\u2728 59 quarter-finals reached in Grand Slam<\/p>\n<p>Two new records broken by Novak Djokovic. <\/p>\n<p>Insatiable, unstoppable.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OFL2iDcSUj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OFL2iDcSUj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Tennis (@WeAreTennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreTennis\/status\/1797705933017190689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nole won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set comfortably 6-1 after converting 2 breaks and didn\u2019t allow any breaks as he saved 4 break points.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cerundolo won the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set as the Argentinian needed 9 break opportunities to convert only 1, but Djokovic didn\u2019t have a single one. In the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, the Serbian also didn\u2019t have any break chances as he lost the set again after 1 break from Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being visible in pain, Nole converted 2 breaks and won the 7-5 when he broke Cerundolo in the last possible moment to tie the sets.<\/p>\n<p>In the 5<sup>th<\/sup> set, Djokovic showed why he is the best tennis player in the world, and he broke Cerundolo\u2019s serve for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time in the deciding moment of the set and triumphed to reach the \u00bc finals of the French Open.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Novak Djokovic won this match <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mzk9tVcWuf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Mzk9tVcWuf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1797702488084423001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 3, 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>Novak Djokovic, world number 1, survived and beat world number 27, Francisco Cerundolo, 3-2 sets after trailing 2-1 sets for almost 4 hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483827,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17554,19432,16740,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[19728,19433,17855,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Nole returned from 2-1 sets behind to defeat Francisco.","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\/483826"}],"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=483826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483828,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483826\/revisions\/483828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483826"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483826"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}