{"id":1062,"date":"2010-08-19T21:42:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T20:42:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:36:30","slug":"novak-reaches-quarter-finals-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-reaches-quarter-finals-in-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak reaches quarter-finals in Cincinnati!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/567.jpg> {nl}{nl}Novak Djokovic advanced into the quarter-finals at the Western &#038; Southern Financial Group Masters in Cincinnati with a 6-1, 7-6(7)  win over Argentine David Nalbandian in 1 hour and 37 minutes.{nl}{nl}Nalbandian failed to capitalise on a break point when he sent a forehand return of serve wide across court and Djokovic went on to hold for the opening game of the match when the Argentine hit a backhand return into the net. The no.2 seed then broke his opponent\u2019s service twice for 4-0 lead. Nalbandian broke back once, but Nole made the third break in the match and served out the first set 6-1 in 30 minutes.{nl}{nl}World no.37 made an early break in the second game of the second set. Novak fought back for 2-1 and we saw two more breaks when the Serb finally held to level the result to 3-3. The 23-year-old Belgrade native saved a break point in the eighth game and two break\/set point chances in the tenth to send the set to a tie-breaker where he saved three more set points and won it 9-7 when Nalbandian made a double fault.{nl}{nl}Match statistics: aces (2-2), double faults (3-5), winners (14-17), unforced errors (17-31){nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;I have been very successful in United States hard courts.  I won both Indian Wells, Miami, and won Montreal.  This is where I haven&#8217;t won, so to complete that, I will try to win the title this year. But it&#8217;s still a long way,&#8221;<\/b> said Djokovic after the match.  <b>&#8220;I was really happy with today&#8217;s performance.  I think it was better than yesterday.  David is a great player; plays very fast.  And considering the conditions, which are very fast here as well, it was not easy to stay in the point with him.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}Novak will play against no.9 seed Andy Roddick in the quarter-finals on Friday at 8pm CET. The American beat fifth-seeded Robin Soderling of Sweden in three sets 6-4, 6-7(7), 7-6(5).{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Roddick have met six times. The American, who won their last three matches, leads 4-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic advanced into the quarter-finals at the Western &#038; Southern Financial Group Masters in Cincinnati with a 6-1, 7-6(7)  win over Argentine David Nalbandian in 1 hour and 37 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012083],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-cincinnati-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","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=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28246,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/28246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}