{"id":1004,"date":"2010-04-16T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:49:24","slug":"brilliant-novak-powers-into-monte-carlo-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/brilliant-novak-powers-into-monte-carlo-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Novak powers into Monte-Carlo semi-finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/471.jpg> {nl}{nl}Novak Djokovic defeated Argentine David Nalbandian 6-2, 6-3 in 1 hour and 19 minutes to reach the semi-finals at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament.{nl}{nl}Djokovic took complete control right from the beginning, breaking his opponent&#8217;s serve in the first and third game of the opening set for 3-0 lead. The Argentine broke back once in the fourth game. Nalbandian double-faulted on break point at 4-2 before Novak clinched the first set 6-2 with an inside-out forehand.{nl}{nl}Nole made two breaks in the second set, in the opening and the last ninth game for 6-3.{nl}{nl}Statistics: aces (2-2), double faults (0-3), winners (14-18), unforced errors (12-33).{nl}{nl}&#8221;This is certainly one of the best matches I&#8217;ve played this year. I had a very difficult opponent who has come back great in the last six, seven weeks and has been playing great tennis,&#8221; said Novak after the match. &#8220;I hope I can keep this kind of game all the way to the end.&#8221;{nl}{nl}Djokovic will play against sixth seed Fernando Verdasco for a place in the finals. The Spaniard beat his compatriot Albert Montanes 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-0.{nl}{nl}Their head-to-heads is 5-2 in Novak&#8217;s favour.{nl}{nl}Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer will meet in all-Spanish semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic defeated Argentine David Nalbandian 6-2, 6-3 in 1 hour and 19 minutes to reach the semi-finals at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1125],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-monte-carlo-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28300,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/28300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}