{"id":75,"date":"2014-11-02T18:29:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T18:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2014-11-02T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T18:30:03","slug":"djokovic-easily-wins-paris-indoor-masters-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/djokovic-easily-wins-paris-indoor-masters-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic Easily Wins Paris Indoor Masters Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic improved his odds of ending the season as the <strong>number one player in the world<\/strong> by defeating big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic in the ATP Paris Masters final on Sunday, Nov. 2. <\/p>\n<p>The tournament&#8217;s number one seed from Serbia, never lost a set in Bercy to claim his third title. He returned the serves of <strong>seventh-seeded Milos Raonic<\/strong> with perfection to prevail in a one-sided affair which was a surprise given the have had played a very tight three-set match in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/french-open\" title=\"Roland Garros Tournament\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Garros quarterfinals<\/a> in 2014 which is a slower surface. The indoor carpet in Paris should have provided Raonic with the necessary speed to beat Novak. However, Novak showed he is also great on indoor courts too.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nole-paris-masters-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nole-paris-masters-2014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"nole-paris-masters-2014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-76\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic became the first player to defend his Paris Masters title with a 6-2 6-3 win. It is his 600th career ATP victory and continued Djokovic&#8217;s indoor winning streak to 20 and <strong>brings him his 20th Masters title<\/strong> It&#8217;s Nole&#8217;s 4th consecutive season of winning 3 or more master titles. Meanwhile, Raonic lost his second final at a Masters final event but is making progress.<\/p>\n<p>Raonic and Djokovic will be participating in the ATP World Tour Finals held on Nov. 9-16 in London, where Djokovic will also most most likely be seeded number one and tries to protect his number one ranking for 2014 over second-ranked Roger Federer of Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic improved his odds of ending the season as the number one player in the world by defeating big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenniscourtside.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}