{"id":486893,"date":"2024-10-19T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486893"},"modified":"2024-10-19T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T18:30:21","slug":"djokovic-wins-one-last-time-against-biggest-rival-rafael-nadal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-wins-one-last-time-against-biggest-rival-rafael-nadal\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic wins one last time against &#8216;biggest rival&#8217; Rafael Nadal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic triumphed over Rafael Nadal in a captivating match at the Six Kings Slam exhibition tournament, winning 2-0 in straight sets (6:2, 7:6[5]). This marked the final chapter in their legendary 18-year rivalry, with Djokovic sealing victory in their 60th head-to-head meeting, bringing his tally to 31 wins against Nadal&#8217;s 29.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic made an early statement by breaking Nadal&#8217;s serve in the first game and once again in the seventh, comfortably securing the first set. The second set was more competitive, with both players exchanging breaks. Djokovic had a chance to serve for the match after a break in the ninth game but missed a match point, allowing Nadal to break back and force a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Emotional scenes at the net \ud83e\udd79<\/p>\n<p>A warm embrace at the net between Djokovic and Nadal as Novak defeats the Spaniard 6-2 7-6 \ud83e\udd1d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SixKingsSlam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SixKingsSlam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cARfLjn03Q\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cARfLjn03Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1847703505680945540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the tiebreak, both players held their serves until 4:4, when Djokovic managed a minibreak. Nadal immediately responded, but Djokovic won the final two points after a 5:5 tie, securing victory and concluding their iconic rivalry with a dramatic finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic triumphed over Rafael Nadal in a captivating match at the Six Kings Slam exhibition tournament, winning 2-0 in straight sets (6:2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486894,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740,17409],"news_category":[16714,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17855,767],"acf":{"announce":"Both players had their last meet on the court at the Six Kings Slam exhibition tournament final","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\/486893"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486895,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486893\/revisions\/486895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486893"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486893"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}