{"id":17451,"date":"2022-07-12T22:03:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=232110"},"modified":"2022-07-12T22:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T16:33:42","slug":"rafael-nadal-congratulates-novak-djokovic-for-his-21st-grand-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/rafael-nadal-congratulates-novak-djokovic-for-his-21st-grand-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal congratulates Novak Djokovic for his 21st Grand Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic bagged his 21st Grand Slam title and his seventh trophy at Wimbledon this year defeating Nick Kyrgios of Australia. The Serb who dropped to No. 7th from three after the title couldn\u2019t defend his 2000 points as ATP and WTA announced to not award any ranking points at this year\u2019s championships in response to Wimbledon banning players based on their country namely Russia and Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Lack of ranking points did not stop the player from winning his 21st and becoming the player with the most Grand Slams titles in men\u2019s singles history after Rafael Nadal with 22.<\/p>\n<p>On his seventh major at Wimbledon, which is one less than Roger Federer\u2019s most majors on grass, Nadal congratulated the Serbian player via Instagram comment. The Spaniard commented on Djokovic\u2019s Wimbledon victory post, \u201cWow! Great moment! Enjoy it and many congrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">#22 Rafa Nadal congratulates #21 Djokovic for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> #7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/usIQsBil4A\">pic.twitter.com\/usIQsBil4A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jos\u00e9 Morgado (@josemorgado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josemorgado\/status\/1546575849104736256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nadal was forced to withdraw from the championships following foot discomfort against eventual runner-up Kyrgios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serb is now one less to equal the record of most Grand Slams currently held by Rafael Nadal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1421,3164,203,336,250],"class_list":["post-17451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam","tag-grand-slam-champion","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17451","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=17451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}