{"id":485203,"date":"2024-07-12T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485203"},"modified":"2024-07-12T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T19:00:30","slug":"djokovic-blanks-musetti-to-reach-wimbledon-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-blanks-musetti-to-reach-wimbledon-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic blanks Musetti to reach Wimbledon final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number 2 Novak Djokovic won in straight sets against world number 25 Lorenzo Musetti and will play for the title at the Grand Slam on grass in London only a month after having surgery after being forced to retire on Roland-Garros.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Novak Djokovic is a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> finalist once again \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>The 7-time champion defeats Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 7-6(2), 6-4<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gx6pwb39DH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Gx6pwb39DH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1811837071566188604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian will play against Carlos Alcaraz in a replay from last year\u2019s final as the Spaniard beat him, and now Nole will seek revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Novak won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set after converting 2 breaks while allowing Musetti only one as the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set was the most competitive one in the match as each player had 1 break and the set was decided after a tiebreak. Nole dominated in the tiebreak and won it 7-2 points to get 2-0 lead. In the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, Djokovic needed only 1 break to win the set and the match as the Serbian, however, needed 4 match balls to close the set and reach the final at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">Carlos Alcaraz vs Novak Djokovic: The Sequel<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8uiFg5qGn5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8uiFg5qGn5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1811836203412418702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 12, 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>World number 2 Novak Djokovic won in straight sets against world number 25 Lorenzo Musetti and will play for the title at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485204,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20945,16740,18069,17072],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[20946,17855,18071,6273],"acf":{"announce":"Nole will play his 37th Grand Slam final on Sunday.","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\/485203"}],"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=485203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485206,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485203\/revisions\/485206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485203"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485203"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}