{"id":108248,"date":"2018-09-03T22:11:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=108248"},"modified":"2018-09-06T05:15:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T03:15:28","slug":"nole-rolls-into-11th-us-open-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-rolls-into-11th-us-open-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole rolls into 11th US Open quarter-final, Millman next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No.6 seed Novak Djokovic booked his place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Open<\/a> quarter-finals for the 11th time with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 victory over world no.68 Joao Sousa in two hours in a humid day session on Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two-time former titlist broke twice in the first set but had to recover from a break deficit in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Novak struggled physically in the third set and went off court for a medical time-out leading 2-1. He got the crucial break in the eighth game for a 5-3 lead before serving out the match.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Serbian star improved his perfect career H2H record with the Portuguese to 5-0.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the victory over Sousa, Novak said: <strong>\u201cI&#8217;m very happy to get this one done in straight sets. It was much more difficult than the score indicated. Credit to Joao for fighting, he brought a lot of intensity on the court. It was very tough conditions, especially the first hour and a half. We are putting in all the work but sometimes you just have to survive. I&#8217;m really pleased with where my game is at at the moment. Getting into quarter-finals, ready to perform well.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (9-4), double faults (1-5), winners (23-21), unforced errors (18-28), total points won (87-67).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next face John Millman (Wednesday about 21:00h local time \/ Thursday 03:00 CET). The Australian upset no.2 seed and five-time champion Roger Federer (SUI) in four sets (3-6, 7-5, 7-6, 7-6). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Belgrade native defeated Millman in their only previous ATP H2H encounter at the 2018 Fever-Tree Championships.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has lifted the US Open championships trophy twice, in 2011 and 2015. He didn\u2019t compete in the tournament last year due to elbow injury.<\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole September desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Calendar_September2018.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth seed needed two hours to progress to the US Open last 8, beating Joao Sousa 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 on Arthur Ashe Stadium. He will next face John Millman (AUS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":108243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[93,101010469,101012298,101012302],"class_list":["post-108248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-fourth-round","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-new-york-en","tag-us-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108248","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=108248"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108297,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108248\/revisions\/108297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}