{"id":17039,"date":"2021-06-25T11:26:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T05:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=115955"},"modified":"2021-06-25T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T05:56:44","slug":"djokovic-advances-to-the-final-of-the-mallorca-doubles-tournament-ahead-of-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/djokovic-advances-to-the-final-of-the-mallorca-doubles-tournament-ahead-of-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic advances to the final of the Mallorca doubles tournament ahead of Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Novak Djokovic advanced to the doubles final of the Mallorca Championships, continuing his preparations for Wimbledon next week.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Before seeking to capture his 20th Grand Slam singles championship at the All England Club, the world number one is enjoying some grass-court practice in Mallorca.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In their first event together, Djokovic and his Spanish partner Carlos Gomez-Herrera defeated third seeds Oliver Marach and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi 6-3, 7-6 (7\/4) to reach the final.<\/p>\n<p>In an on-court interview following the match, Djokovic said, \u201cI don\u2019t think we expected to reach the finals. However, if we play well, we can return well, serve well, and I believe we have a good net game. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Overall, everything just fell into place for us in the final few days. I\u2019m ecstatic to have him on the court alongside me and to have reached our first final together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic will be aiming for his second doubles victory, having won the Queen\u2019s doubles competition with Jonathan Erlich in 2010.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">In the final, he and Gomez-Herrera will face fourth-seeded Simone Bolelli and Maximo Gonzalez or second-seeded Philipp Oswald and Marcus Daniell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the singles event, top seed Daniil Medvedev survived a tense first set to upset Norway\u2019s Casper Ruud 7-5, 6-1, and advance to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Novak Djokovic advanced to the doubles final of the Mallorca Championships, continuing his preparations for Wimbledon next week.\u00a0Before\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":37786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1421,1847,203,202,1787],"class_list":["post-17039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam","tag-mallorca","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-tennis","tag-wta"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}