{"id":103096,"date":"2018-06-21T18:48:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T16:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=103096"},"modified":"2018-06-22T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T14:03:45","slug":"novak-powers-past-dimitrov-into-london-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-powers-past-dimitrov-into-london-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak powers past Dimitrov into London quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former world no.1 Novak Djokovic, a runner-up at The Queen\u2019s Club in 2008, recorded a comprehensive 6-4, 6-1 victory over second seed Grigor Dimitrov in 66 minutes on Thursday.<\/strong> The Serbian star is now 7-1 against the Bulgarian in their ATP Head2Head series.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic made a break in the 10th game to clinch a 35-minute opener. The 31-year-old Belgrade native continued his momentum in the second set by breaking in the fourth and sixth games and served it out on his fourth match point to advance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m still kind of finding my form,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;This was a great test, playing against one of the top players in the world, a player that I guess prefers this surface the most. It was a great challenge that I was looking forward to. I was very focused; I was very determined to play my best, especially after my great performance in the first round. I guess I broke his resistance in that 10th game of the first set. He made a couple of crucial double faults that allowed me to get ahead, but I thought I was just making him play in big moments and I served well when I needed to. So it was a very good performance.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (3-8), double faults (4-5), winners (8-14), unforced errors (12-26), total points won (61-39).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a place in the Fever-Tree Championships last four, Novak will face Adrian Mannarino (FRA, ATP #26) who beat compatriot Julien Benneteau in straight sets.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world no.1 Novak Djokovic, a runner-up at The Queen\u2019s Club in 2008, recorded a comprehensive 6-4, 6-1 victory over second seed Grigor Dimitrov in 66 minutes on Thursday. The Serbian star is now 7-1 against the Bulgarian in their ATP Head2Head series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":103093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101011671,101012193,1123,101010525],"class_list":["post-103096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-great-britain-en","tag-london-en","tag-queens","tag-round-2-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103096","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=103096"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103166,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103096\/revisions\/103166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}