{"id":485891,"date":"2024-08-01T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485891"},"modified":"2024-08-01T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:00:30","slug":"djokovic-overcomes-problems-to-eliminate-tsitsipas-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-overcomes-problems-to-eliminate-tsitsipas-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic overcomes problems to eliminate Tsitsipas in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic eliminated Stefanos Tsitsipas 2-0 sets despite needing a medical timeout and playing through pain in most part of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set to become the oldest player to reach the \u00bd finals at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ONLY. NOVAK. DJOKOVIC. \ud83d\ude33<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DjokerNole<\/a> recovers from 0-4 in the second AND saves 3 set points to seal an Olympics semi-final spot!<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\/Tennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Tennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iw6zeoD9Vb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iw6zeoD9Vb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1819089606958370825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One break point was enough for the Serbian to win the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set 6-3 as he didn\u2019t give any break opportunities to Tsitsipas. However, in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, Nole sustained a problem in his leg that resulted to Stefanos winning the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 4 games. Despite that, the Greek player failed to win the set as Djokovic was able to broke Tsitsipas\u2019 serve twice and to force a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>In the tiebreak, Stefanos lost his serve 4 times and Djokovic won the set 7-3 points and closed the match in straight sets and reach the semifinals on singles at the tennis tournament on clay at the Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian will play against Lorenzo Musetti as Djokovic is only 2 matches away from winning his 1<sup>st<\/sup> gold medal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Novak Djokovic says that he is worried about his knee, and that the pain felt very similar to the meniscus tear at Roland Garros \ud83e\udd15 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very worried, honestly, I don\u2019t know what to say. I finished the match, and the intense pain went away. Whether I hit myself or slipped,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A8MCIJoc6T\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/A8MCIJoc6T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Olly \ud83c\udfbe\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 (@Olly_Tennis_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olly_Tennis_\/status\/1819094121270989216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 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 eliminated Stefanos Tsitsipas 2-0 sets despite needing a medical timeout and playing through pain in most part of the 2nd set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485892,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,16740,17249,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18357,17855,18070,18071],"acf":{"announce":"The Serbian had physical problems but won in straight sets.","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\/485891"}],"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=485891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485893,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485891\/revisions\/485893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485891"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485891"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}