{"id":1010,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/verdasco-stops-djokovic-in-thriller\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:30:08","slug":"verdasco-stops-djokovic-in-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/verdasco-stops-djokovic-in-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdasco stops Djokovic in thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/483.jpg> {nl}{nl}World no.2 Novak Djokovic was stopped once again by no.6 seed Fernando Verdasco. The Spaniard defeated him in three sets 6-7(4), 6-3, 4-6 in 3 hours and 17 minutes in quarter-finals of the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia in Rome.{nl}{nl}Verdasco made a break in the seventh game, but was broken back when serving for the set in the tenth game. Djokovic earned three break points and converted the third to equalise to 5-5. The Spaniard broke once again already in the next game, but Nole fought back immediately, so the set went into a tiebreaker. No.6 seed made two mini-breaks, one more than Novak and won it 7-4 after 1 hour and 29 minutes!{nl}{nl}Djokovic was leading 4-1 in the second set with a double break. Verdasco broke back once, but Novak capitalised on his break\/set point in the ninth game and took the set 6-3.{nl}{nl}A break in the third game of the final set was enough for the Spaniard to win it 6-4.{nl}{nl}Statistics: aces (6-2), double faults (7-3), winners (40-33), unforced errors (46-40).{nl}{nl}Novak is a defending champion next week in his hometown Belgrade at \u201cSerbia Open 2010 powered by Telekom Srbija\u201d (May 3-9, 2010), an ATP World Tour 250 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.2 Novak Djokovic was stopped once again by no.6 seed Fernando Verdasco. The Spaniard defeated him in three sets 6-7(4), 6-3, 4-6 in 3 hours and 17 minutes in quarter-finals of the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia in Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012064,569,419],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-rome-2010","tag-thriller","tag-verdasco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","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=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27118,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/27118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}