{"id":110392,"date":"2018-10-12T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=110392"},"modified":"2018-10-13T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T09:56:11","slug":"impressive-nole-makes-shanghai-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/impressive-nole-makes-shanghai-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Nole makes Shanghai semi-final!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time former champion Novak Djokovic advanced to his third ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-final of the season on Friday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shanghairolexmasters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Shanghai Masters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian ace reached the last four in one hour and 43 minutes following a 7-6 (1), 6-3 win over 16th seed Kevin Anderson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a close first set, games went with serve. Anderson failed to convert a break\/set point at 6-5, and after the eight-minute service hold, Novak grew in confidence to win the tie-break 7-1.<\/p>\n<p>One break in the second set was enough for the no.2 seed to seal the win and extend his winning streak to 16 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Novak won 85 per cent of his first-service points and withstood 16 aces from the big-hitting South African.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI faced one break point today, and it was a set point,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>\u201cI managed to pull through that one, and I haven&#8217;t lost too many points on my serve. So I think that&#8217;s a part of my game that maybe is undervalued in a way. But that helps me obviously when I have an opportunity to step in on a second serve or swing through in the baseline points. The conditions are very quick, so holding your serve comfortably is probably the key.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (8-16), double faults (1-4), winners (24-30), unforced errors (17-32), total points won (78-60).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will play against no.4 seed Alexander Zverev on Saturday at 10.30 CET for a place in the ATP World Tour Masters final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old German won their only previous meeting, in the final of 2017 Italian Open in Rome.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time former champion reached the last four in one hour and 43 minutes following a 7-6 (1), 6-3 victory over 16th seed Kevin Anderson. He will play against no.4 seed Alexander Zverev on Saturday at 10.30 CET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":110389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011267,101011403,101012348,101012357],"class_list":["post-110392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-shanghai-en","tag-shanghai-rolex-masters-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110392","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=110392"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110459,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110392\/revisions\/110459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}