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The stakes were raised in the fifth set. \u00a0At 1-1, with Wawrinka serving, they played a nearly 21-minute, 30-point game. \u00a0It was taken to deuce 12 times, with Djokovic having five break chances. \u00a0In the end, Wawrinka held, but it seemed to be all he had left. \u00a0Djokovic broke at 2-2 and ran away with it.<\/p>\n
After the match, Djokovic said: \u00a0\u201cI think it was obvious Stan played more aggressive; he played better tennis over all,\u201d adding, “I was glad I was able to find my best tennis when I needed it.”<\/p>\n
In the second semifinal of the day, Rafael Nadal beat Richard Gasquet with his B-Game, 6-4, 7-6(1), 6-2. \u00a0While Gasquet came up with some showy tennis at times, and Nadal was having trouble finding the lines, the best Gasquet can say is that he broke Nadal’s serve for the first time in the tournament.<\/p>\n
The win assures Djokovic that he holds his No. 1 ranking for the time being, and sets up his 37th match with his rival Nadal — an Open Era record for most matches played. \u00a0The Spaniard currently leads the head-to-head 21-15. \u00a0They will play for the trophy on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Novak Djokovic overcame an overall lackluster performance, and an onslaught from Stanislaw Wawrinka to prevail in a thrilling 5-set match, 2-6, 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. It was a roller-coaster ride of a semifinal. \u00a0Wawrinka, the still-but-perhaps-not-for-long Swiss No. 2 came out strong and broke Djokovic three times in the first set. \u00a0He went up a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,78,146,360,287],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-richard-gasquet","tag-stan-wawrinka","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}