{"id":102252,"date":"2018-06-03T19:44:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=102252"},"modified":"2018-06-03T23:32:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T21:32:14","slug":"novak-reaches-record-12th-quarter-final-at-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-reaches-record-12th-quarter-final-at-roland-garros\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak reaches record 12th quarter-final at Roland Garros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak reached his 12th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French Open<\/a> quarter-final with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 win over Spain&#8217;s Fernando Verdasco on Chatrier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first three games lasted 29 minutes, and it seemed it would be a balanced tie. However, the Serbian 20th seed and 2016 Roland Garros titlist, broke serve in the fourth game before taking the lengthy first set after 59 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic made an early break in the second set and held for 2-0, but Verdasco fought back in the sixth game to level. The former world no.1 pushed his rival once again in the next game and served it out to love.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-time Grand Slam champion was in total control of the third set. He broke twice to advance in two hours and 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone victory on Sunday was Novak&#8217;s 200th triumph on clay courts. He also joined Roger Federer (52) and Jimmy Connors (41) in the exclusive club, as the only men who had appeared in a Grand Slam quarter-final on 40 occasions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Very physical, very long games, a lot of exchanges. <\/strong><strong>He came out on the court with a lot of self-belief, and he started off pretty well and made me work very hard. I think being able to win the first set and get ahead was crucial,&#8221; <\/strong>Djokovic said.<strong> &#8220;I&#8217;m just taking it one match at a time, and right now, considering I played almost four hours in my last match, I felt pretty good physically today. <\/strong><strong>I had no problems to go the distance in long rallies and I won in three sets against a player who is in form, especially for this surface. So that&#8217;s all positives for now.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (3-3), double faults (0-2), winners (21-26), unforced errors (29-48), total points won (106-89).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will play world no.72 Marco Cecchinato in the last eight on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Italian upset Belgian eighth seed David Goffin 7-5, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Fonet<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole reached his 12th French Open quarter-final with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 win over Spain&#8217;s Fernando Verdasco on Chatrier. The victory was his 200th triumph on clay courts. Next up for Novak is world no.72 Marco Cecchinato on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":102229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[93,101011211,101011740,101012141,101012979],"class_list":["post-102252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-fourth-round","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam","tag-paris","tag-roland-garros-2018-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102252","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102252"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102368,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102252\/revisions\/102368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}