{"id":269590,"date":"2025-11-08T08:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/269590\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T08:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:38:20","slug":"djokovic-reaches-144th-atp-final-in-athens-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/269590\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic Reaches 144th ATP Final in Athens \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greece has been kind to Novak Djokovic,<\/a> and he\u2019s making the most of his stay in Athens. The Serbian icon reached his 144th career ATP final on Friday, defeating Germany\u2019s Yannick Hanfmann, 6-3, 6-4, to reach his third final of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Djokovic will face either Lorenzo Musetti or Sebastian Korda in Saturday\u2019s final.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it was the best tennis that I played in this tournament,\u201d Djokovic said after earning his 38th win of the season in one hour and 19 minutes.\u00a0 \u201cIt came at the right time. Obviously I knew that Hanfmann poses a great threat because he\u2019s a very tall player who serves very big, has big shots, big game. He\u2019s very aggressive, taking the ball early and very flat and takes away time from his opponent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Djokovic was strong from the service stripe, knocking down nine aces and winning nine of 13 second serve points. He dropped just 14 points on serve overall.<\/p>\n

The 24-time major champion broke Hanfmann for 4-2 in the second, and added a second break to close the set by winning the final four games.<\/p>\n

Djokovic found himself down a break in the second but quickly turned the tide, rallying to win the final five games of the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI needed to stay focused all the way through,\u201d the 38-year-old added. \u201cI was a break down in the second set, 3-1, but I held my composure and didn\u2019t allow myself to get too negative. All in all, a great level of tennis, I\u2019m very content and looking forward to tomorrow\u2019s final.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Djokovic hit 17 winners against 12 unforced errors; Hanfmann hit 16 winners and 21 unforced errors. The 24-time major champion only faced one break point, and converted three of six against 33-year-old Hanfmann.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece has been kind to Novak Djokovic, and he\u2019s making the most of his stay in Athens. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-269590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}