{"id":151255,"date":"2022-09-25T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T00:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/novak-djokovic-fuels-team-europe-to-8-4-lead-in-laver-cup"},"modified":"2022-09-25T00:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T00:40:15","slug":"novak-djokovic-fuels-team-europe-to-8-4-lead-in-laver-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/novak-djokovic-fuels-team-europe-to-8-4-lead-in-laver-cup","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic fuels Team Europe to 8-4 lead in Laver Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic beat Frances Tiafoe in singles and teamed up with Matteo Berrettini for a doubles victory on Saturday to help Team Europe take an 8-4 lead over Team World in the Laver Cup at London. Berrettini also defeated Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (11), 4-6, 1-0 (10-7) as Team Europe won three of the four matches on the second day of the event. Djokovic of Serbia rolled to a 6-1, 6-3 win over the American Tiafoe before later teaming with the Italian Berrettini for a 7-5, 6-2 win over Team World&#8217;s Alex de Minaur (Australia) and Jack Sock (United States). It was the first time Djokovic and Berrettini have played singles together. &#8220;First time, but definitely not the last time, at least for me,&#8221; Djokovic said during an interview on-court. &#8220;I enjoyed it a lot. Perfect team, I guess. I don&#8217;t play doubles as much, so it&#8217;s a completely different game.&#8221; Team World&#8217;s only victory came when American Taylor Fritz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic beat Frances Tiafoe in singles and teamed up with Matteo Berrettini for a doubles victory on Saturday to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[58,71],"class_list":["post-151255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}