{"id":485759,"date":"2024-07-29T09:45:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485759"},"modified":"2024-07-29T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:45:03","slug":"djokovic-eliminates-nadal-after-a-2-0-sets-win-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-eliminates-nadal-after-a-2-0-sets-win-at-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic eliminates Nadal after a 2-0 sets win at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic, the top-seeded player at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, defeated Rafael Nadal in straight sets in a match from the 2nd round of the tournament on clay in the French capital.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Novak Djokovic defeats Rafael Nadal at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Olympics<\/a> in what could be their last-ever matchup.<\/p>\n<p>46 Grand Slam singles titles between these two \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jH78wDzvG9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jH78wDzvG9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1817917447103476087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian started the clash excellently and won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 5 games of the match and was very close to blanking his opponent in the opening set, but Rafa won 1 game and lost 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>The 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set also started in the best way possible for Djokovic as the Serbian won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 4 games but after that his Spaniard opponent tied the games after winning 4 straight himself. Despite that, Nole won the next 2 games as he broke Rafa\u2019s serve for 5-4 lead and then closed the set and the match with his serve.<\/p>\n<p>That was Djokovic 3<sup>rd<\/sup> victory against Nadal on clay in Paris, but the previous 2 were on Roland-Garros. Nole will face either Koepfer or Arnaldi in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal!! <\/p>\n<p>Nadal has lost just five matches at Roland Garros out of 117 \ud83e\udd2f Three of them have been to Djokovic.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Paris2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Olympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BBCOlympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jYdAT658bk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jYdAT658bk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1817916925499826456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 29, 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, the top-seeded player at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, defeated Rafael Nadal in straight sets in a match from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485760,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,16740,17409,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18357,17855,18071,767],"acf":{"announce":"Novak won in straight sets against Rafael in Paris.","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\/485759"}],"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=485759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485761,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485759\/revisions\/485761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485759"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485759"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}