{"id":17437,"date":"2022-06-26T14:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=230116"},"modified":"2022-06-26T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:49:19","slug":"novak-djokovic-speaks-on-rafael-nadals-fighting-spirit-ahead-of-wimbledon-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/novak-djokovic-speaks-on-rafael-nadals-fighting-spirit-ahead-of-wimbledon-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic speaks on Rafael Nadal\u2019s fighting spirit ahead of Wimbledon Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic has nothing but respect and kind words for rival Rafael Nadal. The Serb is impressed with Nadal\u2019s stunning run this year despite injuries. Djokovic is one of the top favourites at the Wimbledon Championships which starts with its main draw on the 27th of this month. The major started with its qualifiers on June 20th and the championships will run until July 10.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic couldn\u2019t defend his Australian Open title due to visa cancellation following vaccination mandatory rules, the first Grand Slam was won by rival Nadal defeating current World No. 1 Daniil Medvedev in an intense match. He also grabbed the record-extending 14th Roland Garros title in Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Nadal and Djokovic met on the court was at this year\u2019s French Open quarterfinals where the Serbian was defeated on June 1. The player is impressed with the 36-year-old\u2019s run this year despite the injury. Having surgery and winning a Grand Slam just after it is something to be appreciated and that\u2019s what Djokovic did.\u00a0 The No. 3 ATP player from Serbia appreciated his fighting spirits. \u201cJust hats down for what he has achieved. He he keeps on doing on the court,\u201d said Djokovic about Nadal as reported by tennis journalist Christopher Clarey.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Classy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aL98p0iuQT\">pic.twitter.com\/aL98p0iuQT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Clarey \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 (@christophclarey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christophclarey\/status\/1540824322935345152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time they both met each other on the court was at this year\u2019s quarterfinals at Roland Garros. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[203,336,250,3322],"class_list":["post-17437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-2022"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17437","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=17437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}