{"id":104353,"date":"2018-07-09T22:23:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T20:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=104353"},"modified":"2018-07-10T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T08:24:56","slug":"brilliant-novak-rolls-into-wimbledon-quarters-faces-nishikori-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/brilliant-novak-rolls-into-wimbledon-quarters-faces-nishikori-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Novak rolls into Wimbledon quarters, faces Nishikori next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole is through to his 10th Wimbledon quarter-final!<\/p>\n<p><strong>12-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic advanced into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Championships<\/a> last eight after rolling past unseeded Russian Karen Khachanov in straight sets 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. The match lasted one hour and 45 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two had traded breaks twice before Novak made a crucial break in the 10th game to claim the opening set.<\/p>\n<p>As his confidence was growing, the Serbian star broke twice in the second and third sets to finish with positive momentum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I got a lot of first serves in, made him hit the extra ball. I served well when I needed to. It was difficult conditions, in the last few games I couldn\u2019t see the ball that well and it was very windy so I had to hang in there,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time former titlist hit 29 winners and committed just 12 unforced errors.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Djokovic joined Jimmy Connors with 41 Grand Slam quarter-final appearances, which is second only to Roger Federer with 53.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6NZZY761Ck8\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next look to beat no.24 seed Kei Nishikori on Wednesday for a place in his 32th Major championships semi-final. The Japanese beat Ernests Gulbis earlier in the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole leads Kei 13-2 in ATP H2H series. It will be their first encounter on grass.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak completed efficient 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 victory over unseeded Karen Khachanov to set up a last eight meeting with 24th seed Kei Nishikori. The match lasted one hour and 45 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":104271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[93,101010469,101012193,101011445,101012990],"class_list":["post-104353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-fourth-round","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-the-championships","tag-wimbledon-2018-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104353","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=104353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104415,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104353\/revisions\/104415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}