{"id":17447,"date":"2022-07-10T21:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T16:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=231834"},"modified":"2022-07-10T21:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T16:29:39","slug":"novak-djokovic-is-2022-wimbledon-champion-wins-his-21st-grand-slam-defeating-nick-kyrgios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/novak-djokovic-is-2022-wimbledon-champion-wins-his-21st-grand-slam-defeating-nick-kyrgios\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic is 2022 Wimbledon champion! Wins his 21st Grand Slam defeating Nick Kyrgios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic has finally won his 21st Grand Slam title at the Wimbledon Championships defeating Nick Kyrgios in a nail-biting match.<\/p>\n<p>By defeating Kyrgios for the first time in their third meeting today, Djokovic won Wimbledon for the seventh time, tying Pete Sampras and moving one step closer to Roger Federer. The score was 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(3).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Magnificent. <\/p>\n<p>In its 100 years, Centre Court has seen few champions like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DjokerNole<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CentreCourt100?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CentreCourt100<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vffvL2f08Q\">pic.twitter.com\/vffvL2f08Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1546165566058242050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serb couldn\u2019t defend his title at the Australian Open 2022 following vaccination mandates and visa cancellation which was won by Rafael Nadal. He is now one Slam away from trying with the Spaniard who bagged both the initial Grand Slams and was bidding for a calendar slam but withdrew at the semifinals against Kyrgios following injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djokovic is now one slam away from trying with Rafael Nadal who has 22. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[357,203,250,3322],"class_list":["post-17447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-nick-kyrgios","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-2022"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447","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=17447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}