{"id":1543380,"date":"2022-07-07T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543380"},"modified":"2022-07-07T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T21:20:26","slug":"tennis-djokovic-ready-to-take-on-crowd-and-norrie-as-kyrgios-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennis-djokovic-ready-to-take-on-crowd-and-norrie-as-kyrgios-awaits\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Djokovic ready to take on crowd and Norrie as Kyrgios awaits"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftennis-djokovic-ready-to-take-on-crowd-and-norrie-as-kyrgios-awaits%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543380&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Sudipto Ganguly<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     While Australian maverick Nick Kyrgios enjoys a day off following Rafa Nadal\u2019s withdrawal, Novak Djokovic will bid to continue his Wimbledon juggernaut against local hope Cameron Norrie in the lone men\u2019s semi-final on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Kyrgios will have four days of rest before he plays his maiden major final against Djokovic or Norrie after his semi-final opponent Nadal was forced to pull out due to an abdominal injury on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, a 20-times major winner, has not lost a contest on the manicured lawns at the All England Club since he retired mid-match with an injury in the 2017 quarter-final against Czech Tomas Berdych.<\/p>\n<p>A win over Britain\u2019s ninth seed Norrie would put the 35-year-old Djokovic into an unprecedented 32nd men\u2019s Grand Slam singles final and keep his bid alive for a fourth straight and seventh overall title at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>If he lifts the Challenge Cup again, Djokovic will also close in on nearest rival and 22-times major winner Nadal on the Grand Slam count.<\/p>\n<p>But to have that chance he will have to beat Norrie and a partisan Centre Court crowd with the left-hander bidding to become the first home finalist since Andy Murray won his second Wimbledon title in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic lost only three games against Norrie when the duo faced off in their lone meeting in the group stages of the ATP Finals last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played indoors\u2026 only one encounter that we had,\u201d the top-seeded Serb said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, different conditions, different tournament (and) environment than what it would be playing here in Wimbledon on Centre Court, semi-finals of a slam in his country. I know what to expect\u2026 in terms of the crowd support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, for him, not much to lose. Every victory from now onwards is a big deal for him. I know that. But I practised few times. I know his game well. He\u2019s been around. Of course I will do my homework and get ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Djokovic and Norrie had to stage five-set comeback victories in their quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>While Djokovic rallied from a two-set deficit against Italian Jannik Sinner, Norrie fought back from 2-1 down to beat Belgium\u2019s David Goffin.<\/p>\n<p>But on paper Djokovic, who Goffin described as \u201can alien\u201d due to his incredible record at Wimbledon, looks the clear favourite in Friday\u2019s clash against the South African-born and New Zealand-raised Norrie.<\/p>\n<p>However, Norrie, the fourth British man to reach the semi-finals in the professional era, will not be intimidated and with the Centre Court crowd roaring him on will believe anything is possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of the tougher tasks in tennis, I\u2019m going to have to definitely raise my level and raise my level of focus to have a shot with him,\u201d the 26-year-old said after beating Goffin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think obviously I have been playing great, but I think there are a lot of things I can do better\u2026 I\u2019m going to be ready for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Martyn Herman and Sudipto Ganguly; Editing by Toby Davis and Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tennis-djokovic-ready-to-take\/wimbledon-23\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660N3-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660N3-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tennis-djokovic-ready-to-take\/wimbledon-24\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660N4-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI660N4-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sudipto Ganguly LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 While Australian maverick Nick Kyrgios enjoys a day off following Rafa Nadal\u2019s withdrawal, Novak Djokovic will bid to continue his Wimbledon juggernaut against local<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":1547042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}