{"id":21179,"date":"2012-07-06T17:56:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=21179"},"modified":"2012-07-06T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:56:51","slug":"roger-federer-beats-novak-djokovic-in-semifinal-2012-wimbledon-news-21179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/roger-federer-beats-novak-djokovic-in-semifinal-2012-wimbledon-news-21179\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer beats Novak Djokovic in Semifinal \/ 2012 Wimbledon News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/federer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/federer-e1341586553847.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Six-times champion Roger Federer produced a vintage display to beat defending champion Novak Djokovic 6-3 3-6 6-4 6-3 in the Wimbledon semi-final on Friday.<\/h1>\n<p>The Swiss maintained his record of never losing a Wimbledon semi-final to reach a record eighth showpiece match at the All England Club with a dominant performance on Centre Court.<\/p>\n<p>After the first two sets were shared in less than an hour, the match came alive in the third set.<\/p>\n<p>Serving at 4-5 Djokovic blazed a smash long at 15-30 to give Federer two set points. Djokovic saved the first with a forehand but Federer seized his chance, winning a sensational 20-stroke rally with a smash to move within a set of the final.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic could not recover and dropped serve early in the fourth set as Federer rolled to his first final at the grasscourt slam since he beat Andy Roddick in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>He will face either Briton Andy Murray or Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Sunday&#8217;s final \u00a0to win a seventh Wimbledon title.<\/p>\n<p>It took Federer two hours and 19 minutes to end Djokovic&#8217;s reign.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 16)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six-times champion Roger Federer produced a vintage display to beat defending champion Novak Djokovic 6-3 3-6 6-4 6-3 in the Wimbledon semi-final on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,1,118,154,14],"tags":[27280,27287,966,27279,19930,27288],"class_list":["post-21179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-tennis","category-world","tag-2012-wimbledon","tag-briton-andy-murray-wimbledon-2012","tag-london","tag-london-wimbledon","tag-roger-federer-novak-djokovic","tag-wimbledon-semi-final-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}