{"id":5094,"date":"2013-11-11T00:55:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:58:15","slug":"djokovic-defeats-wawrinka-to-set-showdown-with-nadal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/djokovic-defeats-wawrinka-to-set-showdown-with-nadal\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic Defeats Wawrinka to Set Showdown With Nadal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WTF-SF-Djokovic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5085 alignnone\" alt=\"WTF SF - Djokovic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WTF-SF-Djokovic.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WTF-SF-Djokovic.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WTF-SF-Djokovic-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his most convincing win of this ATP World Tour Finals, the Serbian Novak Djokovic beat Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland to set up the final that most had anticipated, with Rafael Nadal having won his semifinal earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Swiss has been enjoying the most successful year of his career, and was making his debut at the ATP World Tour Finals. \u00a0He came out looking to start strong, threatening Djokovic&#8217;s first serve, and breaking his second. But the Serbian broke back immediately, and then seemed to kick things up a notch to counter any significant threats that Wawrinka threw at him. \u00a0In the end, Djokovic blew past him, 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>The final will be played in London&#8217;s O2 Arena tomorrow at 8pm GMT. \u00a0It will be the 38th meeting between Djokovic and Nadal, a record, and their sixth match of 2013. \u00a0Nadal leads on the year 3-2, though the most recent win went to the Serb.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: \u00a0Marianne Bevis (Creative Commons License)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his most convincing win of this ATP World Tour Finals, the Serbian Novak Djokovic beat Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland to set up the final that most had anticipated, with Rafael Nadal having won his semifinal earlier in the day. The 28-year-old Swiss has been enjoying the most successful year of his career, and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[464,63,360,462],"class_list":["post-5094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-barclays-atp-world-tour-finals","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-stan-wawrinka","tag-world-tour-finals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094","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=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}