{"id":47488,"date":"2026-10-07T12:21:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47488"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:16:27","slug":"djokovic-wins-seventh-china-open-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/djokovic-wins-seventh-china-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic wins seventh China Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Former world number one and sixth seed, Novak Djokovic, has won his seventh China Open title in Beijing, and 102nd of his illustrious career.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Serb&#8217;s opponent in the final, Australia&#8217;s Alex de Minaur, retired with a groin injury in the second set.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>De Minaur left the court for a medical timeout after losing the first-set tiebreak.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But the Australian called it quits after winning the first game of the second set.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The victory extended the Serbian&#8217;s unbeaten record at the tournament to 34 matches.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was also the 21st straight year that the 39-year old has won a singles title on Tour.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 24-time Grand Slam champion was competing in only his second final of the year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In February, he lost in the Australian Open final to newly-crowned Japan Open champion, Carlos Alcaraz of Spain.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13224,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-47488","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Novak Djokovic, has won his seventh China Open","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47490,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47488\/revisions\/47490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}