{"id":363223,"date":"2025-07-07T19:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=363223"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:33:29","slug":"wimbledon-novak-djokovic-overcomes-a-poor-start-to-beat-alex-de-minaur-and-reach-the-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=363223","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon: Novak Djokovic overcomes a poor start to beat Alex de Minaur and reach the quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LONDON, SANA &#8211; Novak Djokovic overcame an uncharacteristically unsteady start to avoid what would have been his earliest exit at Wimbledon since 2016, coming through for a 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 victory over 11th-seeded Alex de Minaur in the fourth round Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Roger Federer, an eight-time Wimbledon winner, sitting in the front row of the Royal Box, very little went right at the outset for the 38-year-old Djokovic on the grass below during a breezy afternoon with the temperature in the 60s Fahrenheit (teens Celsius), a week after matches were contested in record-breaking heat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Djokovic turned things around enough to grab the middle two sets and then really surged at the end after trailing 4-1 in the fourth. He took the last five games and 14 of the final 15 points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His bid for an eighth Wimbledon title and 25<sup>th<\/sup> Grand Slam singles trophy overall will continue against No. 22 Flavio Cobolli of Italy. Cobolli reached his first major quarterfinal with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3) victory over 2014 U.S. Open champion and two-time major runner-up Marin Cilic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Djokovic will be appearing in his 63<sup>rd<\/sup> Slam quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: AP<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amer Dhawa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, SANA &#8211; Novak Djokovic overcame an uncharacteristically unsteady start to avoid what would have been his earliest exit at Wimbledon since 2016, coming through for a 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 victory over 11th-seeded Alex de Minaur in the fourth round Monday. With Roger Federer, an eight-time Wimbledon winner, sitting in the front row of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":363224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,23,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-news-bar","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363225,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363223\/revisions\/363225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/363224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}