{"id":4968,"date":"2013-11-02T19:46:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:58:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:58:47","slug":"ferrer-stuns-nadal-in-paris-sets-sights-on-djokovic-in-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/ferrer-stuns-nadal-in-paris-sets-sights-on-djokovic-in-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrer Stuns Nadal in Paris &#8211; Sets Sights on Djokovic in Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Paris-Final-Djokovic-Ferrer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4963 alignnone\" alt=\"Paris Final - Djokovic Ferrer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Paris-Final-Djokovic-Ferrer.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Paris-Final-Djokovic-Ferrer.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Paris-Final-Djokovic-Ferrer-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Ferrer will have a chance to defend his title in Paris after upsetting world No. 1 Rafael Nadal today in straight sets: 6-3, 7-5. \u00a0It was only Ferrer&#8217;s fifth win over his fellow countryman in 25 meetings, but it was really all Ferrer today. \u00a0He will meet No. 2 Novak Djokovic in the final tomorrow, after the Serb overcame a shaky start in his own semifinal to beat Roger Federer: 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic&#8217;s victory, coupled with Nadal&#8217;s loss, keeps his hopes alive of regaining the No. 1 ranking by year&#8217;s end, though he will need to win tomorrow, and get further assistance from the Spaniard at the World Tour Finals next week in London.<\/p>\n<p>The loss also dashed Nadal&#8217;s hope of becoming the first man to win six Masters 1000 titles in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>In tomorrow&#8217;s final, Ferrer will be hoping to improve on his disadvantageous 5-10 head-to-head record against Djokovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ferrer will have a chance to defend his title in Paris after upsetting world No. 1 Rafael Nadal today in straight sets: 6-3, 7-5. \u00a0It was only Ferrer&#8217;s fifth win over his fellow countryman in 25 meetings, but it was really all Ferrer today. \u00a0He will meet No. 2 Novak Djokovic in the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[117,63,452,78,123],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-david-ferrer","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-paris-masters","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roger-federer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}