{"id":1032,"date":"2010-06-12T19:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:45:05","slug":"djokovic-erlich-edge-past-frenchmen-to-advance-to-finals-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/djokovic-erlich-edge-past-frenchmen-to-advance-to-finals-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic-Erlich edge past Frenchmen to advance to finals in London!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Trava\/525.jpg>{nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic hit the doubles court on Saturday teaming with Jonathan Erlich of Israel to defeat no.8 seeds Julien Benneteau and Michael Llodra 6-7(7), 6-3, 10-6 in 1 hour and 35 minutes.{nl}{nl}The Serbian-Israeli pair, who are making their team debut this week, defeated Frenchmen to reach the finals of the AEGON Championships. It\u2019s their fourth win, third over seeded teams.{nl}{nl}This will be Novak\u2019s second career doubles final.  He lost his first in Adelaide 2007, in pair with Czech Radek Stepanek.{nl}{nl}Novak and Erlich had a 6-1 lead in the first set tie-breaker and five set points, but the French duo made turn-around and won it 9-7.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Erlich took the second set 6-3 and then super tie-breaker 10-6 to advance into the finals of the ATP World Tour 250 grass-court tennis tournament in London.{nl}{nl}They will face Karol Beck and David Skoch in Sunday\u2019s final about 18.00 CET. The Slovakian-Czech duo upset no.1 seeds Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) and Daniel Nestor(CAN) 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic hit the doubles court on Saturday teaming with Jonathan Erlich of Israel to defeat no.8 seeds Julien Benneteau and Michael Llodra 6-7(7), 6-3, 10-6 in 1 hour and 35 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[545],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-aegon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","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=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28272,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/28272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}