{"id":61672,"date":"2019-05-20T11:02:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=61672"},"modified":"2019-05-20T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:02:57","slug":"italian-open-title-nadal-beats-djokovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/italian-open-title-nadal-beats-djokovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Open Title Nadal beats Djokovic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rafael Nadal beats Novac  Djocovic in finals, while in women&#8217;s section Karolina Pliskova beats  Yohana Konta.Rafael Nadal is right back where he wants to be. After  losing in the semifinals of three straight clay-court tournaments, Nadal  dominated for stretches against his longtime rival, Novak Djokovic, in a  6-0, 4-6, 6-1 win Sunday for a record-extending ninth Italian Open  title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The timing for Nadal&#8217;s return to form could not have been \nmore opportune, as he will seek a record-extending 12th title at the \nFrench Open starting next weekend. In the women&#8217;s final earlier, Czech \nfourth seed Karolina Pliskova swept past Britain&#8217;s Johanna Konta 6-3, \n6-4 to win the WTA Italian Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pliskova, the 2017 French Open \nsemi-finalist, clinched her 13th career title, in the final major \nwarm-up tournament on clay before Roland Garros starts on May 26. A \nbreak in each set was enough for the former world number one to get past\n Konta, sealing victory on her third match point after 85 minutes on \ncourt.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal beats Novac Djocovic in finals, while in women&#8217;s section Karolina Pliskova beats Yohana Konta.Rafael Nadal is right back where he wants to be. After losing in the semifinals of three straight clay-court tournaments, Nadal dominated for stretches against his longtime rival, Novak Djokovic, in a 6-0, 4-6, 6-1 win Sunday for a record-extending [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61674,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61672\/revisions\/61674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}