{"id":26355,"date":"2025-11-08T15:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/08\/djokovic-wins-in-athens-advances-auger-aliassime-to-atp-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:20:18","slug":"djokovic-wins-in-athens-advances-auger-aliassime-to-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/08\/djokovic-wins-in-athens-advances-auger-aliassime-to-atp-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic wins in Athens, advances Auger-Aliassime to ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ATHENS &#8211; Novak Djokovic defeated Lorenzo Musetti 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the Greek Championship final on Saturday to win the 101st title of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The loss ended Musetti&#8217;s hopes of qualifying for the final ATP Finals of the season in Turin, Italy, with Felix Auger-Aliassime taking the final spot instead.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Djokovic won his 72nd title on hard courts, setting the men&#8217;s record, one more than Roger Federer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an unbelievable battle,&#8221; Djokovic said. &#8220;It was a physically grueling three-hour match. &#8230; I&#8217;m very proud that I was able to overcome this match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the final set, Djokovic clinched the victory with a service winner after five breaks. Musetti has lost in the past six tour-level finals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS &#8211; Novak Djokovic defeated Lorenzo Musetti 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the Greek Championship final on Saturday to win the 101st title of his career. The loss ended Musetti&#8217;s hopes of qualifying for the final ATP Finals of the season in Turin, Italy, with Felix Auger-Aliassime taking the final spot instead. The 38-year-old Djokovic won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[140,5243,2423,6127,262,111,24,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-26355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-advances","9":"tag-athens","10":"tag-atp","11":"tag-augeraliassime","12":"tag-djokovic","13":"tag-finals","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-wins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}