{"id":22519,"date":"2013-09-10T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/djokovic-feels-nadal-may-take-his-number-one-spot\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T14:18:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T12:18:20","slug":"djokovic-feels-nadal-may-take-his-number-one-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/djokovic-feels-nadal-may-take-his-number-one-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic feels Nadal may take his number one spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=16170\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16170 \" alt=\"Rafael Nadal of Spain shakes hands at the net with Novak Djokovic of Serbia after their men's singles final match at the 2013 US Open. Photo: News Limited Network\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ba34f_907629-djokovic-v-nadal-600x337.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Nadal of Spain shakes hands at the net with Novak Djokovic of Serbia after their men\u2019s singles final match at the 2013 US Open. Photo: News Limited Network<\/p>\n<p>Novak Djokovic believes Rafael Nadal may soon replace him as world number one and has more than enough time to break Roger Federer\u2019s benchmark 17 major titles after the Spaniard roared to the US Open title at Flushing Meadows yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic was beaten 6-2 3-6 6-4 6-1 by Nadal, who claimed the 13th singles slam of his career to move ahead of Australia\u2019s Roy Emerson (12) on the all-time list.<\/p>\n<p>Only Pete Sampras (14) and Roger Federer (17) are above the 27-year-old Nadal on the pecking order of major champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThirteen grand slams for a guy who is 27-years-old is incredible,\u201d Djokovic said. \u201cI mean, whatever he has achieved so far in his career is something that everybody should respect. No question about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was saying before, he\u2019s definitely one of the best tennis players ever to play the game. Looking at his achievements and his age, at this moment \u2013 he still has a lot of years to play. That\u2019s all I can say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/nadal-wins-us-open-after-beating-djokovic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nadal seems certain to overtake Djokovic as world number one by the end of the year<\/a>. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supersport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Novak Djokovic news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/novak-djokovic\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/81a8b_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal of Spain shakes hands at the net with Novak Djokovic of Serbia after their men\u2019s singles final match at the 2013 US Open. Photo: News Limited Network Novak Djokovic believes Rafael Nadal may soon replace him as world number one and has more than enough time to break Roger Federer\u2019s benchmark 17 major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}