{"id":1048,"date":"2010-07-11T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:39:08","slug":"brilliant-novak-leads-serbia-into-davis-cup-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/brilliant-novak-leads-serbia-into-davis-cup-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Novak leads Serbia into Davis Cup semi-finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"

{nl}Photo: Srdjan Stevanovic<\/font>{nl}{nl}Novak Djokovic leads Serbia into World Group semifinals<\/b>{nl}{nl}Novak Djokovic brought the third point to Serbia against Croatia in their Davis Cup by BNP Paribas quarter-final tie. He clinched a 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 victory over world no.13 Marin Cilic in 2 hours and 23 minutes to hand his country a place in the semifinals for the first time in its history!{nl}{nl}Novak raced to a 5-0 lead in the first set with a double break. He missed three set points in the sixth game and two more in the seventh game when Cilic broke once back. The 23-year-old Belgrade native used his sixth set point and took the set 6-3 in 45 minutes.{nl}{nl}The world no.2 made a break already in the opening game of the second set and then held to love with an ace for 2-0. Djokovic converted his break point chance in the fifth game and then extended his lead to 5-1. Croatian no.1 broke Novak\u2019s serve in the eighth game but the Serb broke back immediately to clinch the set 6-3.{nl}{nl}There were four breaks in the third set, Nole made three. Game, set, match \u2013 Novak Djokovic, SERBIA!{nl}{nl}\u201cPersonally, I had a lot of responsibility with the package that I carried on my back before this tie, but right now I feel so relieved that we won,”<\/b> said Djokovic after the victory. “We won in one of the toughest atmospheres against a team that has a lot of success in this competition.\u201d<\/b> {nl}{nl}Listen to Novak’s audio interview here<\/font><\/a>!<\/b>{nl}{nl}Serbia will face Czech Republic in Serbia in semifinal tie (17 Sep – 19 Sep 2010). The Czech’s defeated Chile in Coquimbo 4-1. {nl}{nl}Janko Tipsarevic beat Antonio Veic 6-2, 7-6 in the dead fifth rubber, so the final score is 4-1 for Serbia.{nl}{nl}Results<\/u>:{nl}{nl}SERBIA vs CROATIA 4-1<\/b>{nl}{nl}Novak Djokovic (SRB) – Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) 7-6 (3) 6-4 6-1<\/b>{nl}Marin Cilic (CRO) – Viktor Troicki (SRB) 6-4 7-5 6-2<\/b>{nl}N. Zimonjic\/J. Tipsarevic (SRB) – M. Cilic\/I. Dodig (CRO) 6-3 6-2 6-4<\/b>{nl}Novak Djokovic (SRB) – Marin Cilic (CRO) 6-3 6-3 6-2<\/b>{nl}Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) – Antonio Veic (CRO) 6-2 7-6 (5)<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novak Djokovic brought the third point to Serbia against Croatia in their Davis Cup by BNP Paribas quarter-final tie. He clinched a 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 victory over world no.13 Marin Cilic in 2 hours and 23 minutes to hand his country a place in the semifinals for the first time in its history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010212,101012190],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-davis-cup","tag-split-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","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=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28259,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/28259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}