Novak Djokovic pulled off a stunning upset in Beijing, dumping world number two Alexander Zverev out of the quarter-finals at the 500-point event with a 2-1 win on Sunday to reach the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Ranked eleventh in the world at 39, Djokovic clawed back a deficit against a rival ten years his junior. He leaned on his vast experience and his knack for the big moments to settle the contest, a daunting task against one of the game’s elite.<\/p>\n
The 24-time Grand Slam champion lost the first set 4-6, then roared back. He claimed the second and third sets by the same scoreline, snuffing out the German’s hopes of a deeper run in the tournament.<\/p>\n
Zverev had walked in with real ambition, chasing more impressive results and a tilt at the top of the rankings. Djokovic had other ideas, drawing once again on his long pedigree in the sport’s biggest events to halt him in his tracks.<\/p>\n
Waiting in the semi-finals is Russia’s Daniil Medvedev, the world number six, who booked his spot by seeing off Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo in straight sets, 7-6 (7-4) and 6-3. Two of the game’s leading names now stand toe to toe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic pulled off a stunning upset in Beijing, dumping world number two Alexander Zverev out of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-920423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920423","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=920423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}