{"id":17944,"date":"2025-11-09T07:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=17944"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:11:44","slug":"djokovic-claims-101st-career-title-in-thrilling-athens-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=17944","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic Claims 101st Career Title in Thrilling Athens Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Athens, Greece<\/strong> \u2013 Novak Djokovic secured his 101st career title on Saturday, overcoming Italy&#8217;s Lorenzo Musetti in a hard-fought final at the Athens Open. The Serbian star battled back from a set down to win 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, denying Musetti a place in the season-ending championships.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Djokovic displayed his trademark resilience, digging deep to secure the victory in a match filled with drama. There were a total of 13 break points throughout the contest, including five crucial breaks of serve in a tense deciding set.<\/p>\n<p>The victory also marks Djokovic&#8217;s 72nd title on hard courts, surpassing Roger Federer&#8217;s previous record in the Open Era. This achievement further solidifies Djokovic&#8217;s status as one of the greatest players in tennis history.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt was a tough match, Lorenzo played incredibly well,\u201d<\/em> Djokovic stated after the match. <em>\u201cI had to really fight for every point. I&#8217;m very happy to win my 101st title here in Athens.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Athens Open victory represents another significant milestone in Djokovic&#8217;s illustrious career, adding to his already impressive collection of Grand Slam titles and ATP Masters 1000 crowns. He will now set his sights on further success as the season progresses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=40\">More Sports articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athens, Greece \u2013 Novak Djokovic secured his 101st career title on Saturday, overcoming Italy&#8217;s Lorenzo Musetti in a hard-fought final at the Athens Open. The Serbian star battled back from a set down to win 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, denying Musetti a place in the season-ending championships&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17946,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17944\/revisions\/17946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}