{"id":15002,"date":"2013-06-07T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15002"},"modified":"2013-06-07T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T16:23:06","slug":"french-open-djokovic-cant-stop-nadal-in-five-set-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15002","title":{"rendered":"French Open: Nadal beat Djokovic in a five-set thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/tennis\/rafael%20nadal%20wins%20semifinal%20against%20novak%20djokovic.jpg\" alt=\"rafael nadal wins semifinal against novak djokovic\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/><strong>Paris:<\/strong> Novak djokovic played his best at the right time but it was just not enough to stop the king of Clay court, Rafael Nadal. Nadal won his 58th match at Roland Garros and remained on course for his eighth French Open title. In a see-saw semi-final, Nadal emerged victorious (6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-7(3), 9-7) in four hours and 37 minutes. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard will face fourth seed David Ferrer in Sunday\u2019s final. He is chasing his 12th Grand Slam championship and has a winning FedEx ATP Head2Head record against Ferrer (19-4).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Nadal has a 58-1 record at Roland Garros and is bidding to become the first man in history to win eight titles at the same Grand Slam. The left-hander\u2019s only defeat at the Paris major came four years ago in the fourth round against Robin Soderling.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nadal improved to a 20-15 record over Djokovic in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series. He also defeated the Serb at Roland Garros in the 2012 final and in the 2007-08 semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nadal is through to his ninth final in as many tournaments since his comeback from a left knee injury that kept him sidelined for seven months until February. The Mallorca native is on a 21-match winning streak, having won three successive titles at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell (d. Almagro), the Mutua Madrid Open (d. Wawrinka) and the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia in Rome (d. Federer) since his Monte-Carlo final defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Djokovic was bidding to become the eighth man in history to complete the career Grand Slam and gave Nadal the hardest match he\u2019s had at Roland Garros, other than the defeat to Soderling. Indeed, it was only the second five-set match Nadal has played at the French major, with the first being a first-round win over John Isner in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtsey: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworld\">www.atpworld<\/a> tour.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris: Novak djokovic played his best at the right time but it was just not enough to stop the king of Clay court, Rafael Nadal. Nadal won his 58th match at Roland Garros and remained on course for his eighth French Open title. In a see-saw semi-final, Nadal emerged victorious (6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-7(3), 9-7) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1441,4638,6293,761,562,4639,8968],"class_list":["post-15002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest","tag-david-ferrer","tag-french-open","tag-indian-sports-news-network","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roland-garros","tag-wilfried-tsonga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>French Open: Nadal beat Djokovic in a five-set thriller - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15002\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"French Open: Nadal beat Djokovic in a five-set thriller - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paris: Novak djokovic played his best at the right time but it was just not enough to stop the king of Clay court, Rafael Nadal. 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