{"id":22687,"date":"2021-07-30T16:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T10:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=131263"},"modified":"2021-07-30T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:16:39","slug":"tokyo-olympics-zverev-ceases-novak-djokovics-quest-for-the-golden-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-zverev-ceases-novak-djokovics-quest-for-the-golden-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: Zverev ceases Novak Djokovic\u2019s quest for the Golden Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev with a massive upset of the calendar year ended Novak Djokovic\u2019s quest for the Golden Slam with recovery from a set break down to eliminate world number one 1-6, 6-3, 6-1 at the men\u2019s singles tennis semi-finals of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian slumped from a set and a break ahead where the German took the advantage to knock him out and book a spot at the gold medal match.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth seed Zverev will be in action against Karen Khachanov in the fight for the gold at the final. The Russian overcame Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain 6-3, 6-3 and made it into his first Summer Games final in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When you realise you're through to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gold?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gold<\/a> medal match at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedByEmotion?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnitedByEmotion<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Olympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vIQjl3nuF2\">pic.twitter.com\/vIQjl3nuF2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #Tokyo2020 (@Tokyo2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tokyo2020\/status\/1421052920171171849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>World number 25 Khachanov has succeeded in his nine of the preceding 10 matches after the player newly advanced till the quarter-finals phase at the Wimbledon championship.<\/p>\n<p>Serb Djokovic, who has won three Grand Slams of four this year namely, Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon with only US Open left to win, has never gained a victory at the Olympics singles title.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trying to process beating the world number one! \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dGVkexxL7D\">pic.twitter.com\/dGVkexxL7D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Olympic Games (@Olympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olympics\/status\/1421055067503931392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old, who recently tied the record of 20 Grand Slams champion with Swiss Roger Federer and Spaniard Rafael Nadal was eyeing on to earn a Golden Slam but the player who had been untouchable this whole calendar year has finally been interrupted by the German.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Olympic spirit. \ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Olympics?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Olympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tennis?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MqGt36Hcj8\">pic.twitter.com\/MqGt36Hcj8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1421051609014956033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic can still achieve the gold medal in the mixed doubles as he is paired with Nina Stojanovic into the semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev has ended Novak Djokovic\u2019s bid for Golden Slam with a recovery in the men\u2019s singles tennis semi-finals at the Tokyo Olympics.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":42873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1466,2222,2475,203,336,331,202,2228,2125,1663],"class_list":["post-22687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-karen-khachanov","tag-nina-stojanovic","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roger-federer","tag-tennis","tag-tokyo-2020","tag-tokyo-games","tag-tokyo-olympic"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22687","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=22687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}