{"id":17076,"date":"2021-07-05T21:54:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=120759"},"modified":"2021-07-05T21:54:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:24:41","slug":"wimbledon-2021-defending-champion-novak-djokovic-reaches-his-50th-grand-slam-quarterfinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/wimbledon-2021-defending-champion-novak-djokovic-reaches-his-50th-grand-slam-quarterfinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2021: Defending champion Novak Djokovic reaches his 50th Grand Slam quarterfinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number 1 Novak Djokovic, who recently came after winning the French Open advanced to his 50th Grand Slam quarter-finals and 12th of Wimbledon. This tied him at the position with Arthur Gore on the men\u2019s third all-time list following Roger Federer (18) and Jimmy Connors (14), after defeating No. 17 seeded Chile\u2019s Cristian Garin 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 who played on Centre Court for the first time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">50 Grand Slam quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>In this form, he's going to take some beating\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DjokerNole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t9HWGHGZ2Y\">pic.twitter.com\/t9HWGHGZ2Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1412056949072531461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Two-time defending champion Novak Djokovic who is behind his sixth title at the All England Club has only lost three points on his first serve. He, who has 19 Grand Slam men\u2019s singles titles and 84 ATP singles titles overall that includes a record nine titles of Australian Open and a joint record 36 Masters events (shared with Rafael Nadal), is now behind tying a record of 20th Grand Slam trophy with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in absence of the Spaniard who withdrew from the tournament after losing to the Serbian in French Open semi-finals. He won his 19th Grand Slam title after overcoming Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Roland Garros final this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> quarter-finalist for a 12th time\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DjokerNole<\/a> defeats Cristian Garin 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 to reach the final eight <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/skJOrqvjx3\">pic.twitter.com\/skJOrqvjx3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1412056017563750402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, up next on the Centre Court, Swiss star Roger Federer plays Italian Lorenzo Sonego and is behind his 9th title at Wimbledon and 21st Grand Slam to overtake Rafael Nadal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number 1 Novak Djokovic, who recently came after winning the French Open advanced to his 50th Grand Slam quarter-finals\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1988,688,690,203,336,331,1963,250],"class_list":["post-17076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-all-england-club","tag-french-open","tag-grand-slams","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roger-federer","tag-roland-garros","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17076","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\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}