{"id":17501,"date":"2022-10-01T23:16:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T17:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=249206"},"modified":"2022-10-01T23:16:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T17:46:18","slug":"chris-evert-reacts-to-djokovics-we-played-more-matches-than-any-other-rivalry-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/chris-evert-reacts-to-djokovics-we-played-more-matches-than-any-other-rivalry-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Evert reacts to Djokovic\u2019s \u201cwe played more matches than any other rivalry\u201d statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Serbian player claimed that Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic have played more matches against one another than any other rivalry in tennis history during a press conference for the 2022 Tel Aviv Open, \u201cWe played more matches against each other than any other rivalry in the history of tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic and Nadal have played 59 times together, making it the most frequent rivalry in men\u2019s tennis during the Open Era. However, there are only a few rivalries that have had more games, including Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova. The two legendary players played 80 games between 1973 and 1988, with Navratilova winning 43 of matches. A supporter pointed out the blunder on social media by mentioning both Navratilova and Evert in their message. Evert just replied to Djokovic\u2019s comments with the word \u201cOops.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oops\u2026\ud83e\udd14\ud83e\udd2d\ud83d\ude09 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3ZgubHHohu\">https:\/\/t.co\/3ZgubHHohu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Evert (@ChrissieEvert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrissieEvert\/status\/1576209538272804864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djokovic and Nadal have played 59 times together, making it the most frequent rivalry in men\u2019s tennis during the Open Era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[203,336],"class_list":["post-17501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17501","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=17501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}