{"id":17384,"date":"2022-05-04T15:33:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T10:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=218935"},"modified":"2022-05-04T15:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T10:11:51","slug":"he-is-world-no-1-ive-got-a-metal-hip-andy-murray-on-facing-novak-djokovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/he-is-world-no-1-ive-got-a-metal-hip-andy-murray-on-facing-novak-djokovic\/","title":{"rendered":"He is World No. 1 & I\u2019ve got a metal hip: Andy Murray on facing Novak Djokovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic are going to face each other at tomorrow\u2019s Round of 16 fixture at the ATP Mutua Madrid Open 2022. This will be the 37th time they play against each other.<\/p>\n<p>Murray beat Denis Shapovalov and Dominic Thiem previously while Djokovic outlasted Gael Monfils for the 18th time to completely dominate the head to head record 18-0 against the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<p>After defeating the Canadian and reaching the next round to set a clash with 20-times Grand Slam champion Djokovic, former World No. 1 Murray was asked about the rivalry and fixture with the Serb, \u201cHe is obviously World No. 1 and I\u2019ve got a metal hip,\u201d said Murray in a post-match interview with\u00a0<em>Tennis TV. <\/em>The Briton\u00a0further said that he might won\u2019t have a chance in front of the No. 1 ranked ATP player but it is going to be a \u201cgreat opportunity\u201d as they both \u201chad great battles over the years\u201d and to give his best in the match tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>In their 36 previous encounters, the 34-year-old Serbian player leads 25-11 against Murray in the head to head record. The last time they faced each other was in Doha, Qatar and the first was in 2006 at the ATP Masters 1000 in Madrid Spain. Both were won by Djokovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the rivals have faced each other 36 times in their career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[326,2034,2290,3296,3297,203],"class_list":["post-17384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-andy-murray","tag-denis-shapovalov","tag-gael-monfils","tag-madrid-open","tag-mutua-madrid-open-2022","tag-novak-djokovic"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384","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=17384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}