{"id":103003,"date":"2021-06-12T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103003"},"modified":"2021-06-13T07:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T11:18:47","slug":"espn-novak-djokovic-serves-up-one-of-his-best-ever-matches-to-oust-rafael-nadal-in-semis-stunner-at-the-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103003","title":{"rendered":"(ESPN) Novak Djokovic serves up one of his best-ever matches to oust Rafael Nadal in semis stunner at the French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In arguably one of the best matches of his career, top-seeded Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal 3-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-2 to end the King of Clay&#8217;s bid for a record-breaking 21st Grand Slam title and hand Nadal just his third-ever loss at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n<p>We all know Nadal losing in Paris doesn&#8217;t happen often. Along with that 105-3 career record on the Paris clay, Nadal was 26-0 once reaching the semifinals at Roland Garros. But Djokovic is now the only player to beat Nadal twice here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/31613371\/french-open-2021-novak-djokovic-serves-one-best-ever-matches-oust-rafa-nadal-semis-stunner\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Novak Djokovic defeats Rafael Nadal to advance to the French Open title match &#x203c;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JPLsjop0BU\">pic.twitter.com\/JPLsjop0BU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1403463689630621698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In arguably one of the best matches of his career, top-seeded Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal 3-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-2 to end the King of Clay&#8217;s bid for a record-breaking 21st Grand Slam title and hand Nadal just his third-ever<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103003\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,125,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-men","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103011,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103003\/revisions\/103011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}