{"id":282689,"date":"2025-11-10T05:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282689\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:53:15","slug":"djokovic-wins-athens-title-puts-auger-aliassime-in-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282689\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic wins Athens title, puts Auger-Aliassime in ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> won his 101st career title by rallying for a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3764\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> in the final of the Hellenic Championship on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The loss ended Musetti&#8217;s hopes of qualifying for season-ending ATP Finals in Turin, Italy, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3209\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> earning the last spot instead.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, 38, set a men&#8217;s record with his 72nd title on hard courts, one more than Roger Federer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An incredible battle,&#8221; Djokovic said. &#8220;Three hours of a grueling match, physically. &#8230; I&#8217;m just very proud of myself to get through this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The last set featured five breaks before Djokovic clinched the victory with a service winner. Musetti has now lost his past six tour-level finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS &#8212; Novak Djokovic won his 101st career title by rallying for a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-282689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}