{"id":1140,"date":"2010-11-26T22:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T21:03:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:47:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:47:28","slug":"nole-hammers-roddick-in-london-books-semi-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-hammers-roddick-in-london-books-semi-final-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole hammers Roddick in London, books semi-final spot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/719.jpg> {nl}{nl}<b>World no.3 and 2008 champion Novak Djokovic advanced into the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals semifinal with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over no.8 seed American Andy Roddick in just 65 minutes in his final Group A round robin match at the O2 arena on Friday. <\/b>{nl}{nl}Novak faced a break point in the opening game of the match but Roddick hit a backhand into the net. Djokovic earned a break point opportunity in the fourth game, converted it and then consolidated the break with a hold to love for 4-1 lead. The 23-year-old Belgrade native capitalised on his first break\/set point in the eighth game and took the set 6-2 in 31 minutes.{nl}{nl}A break in the fourth game of the second set was enough for the Serb to win the set and match 6-3 and to advance into the semi-finals in London.{nl}{nl}Statistics: aces (5-3), double faults (0-1), winners (18-12), unforced errors (11-22), total points won (54-39).{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;I knew I had to be kind of in a control of the rallies, and I did that,&#8221;<\/b> said Djokovic after the win. <b>&#8220;I needed to get a lot of returns back. I did that, as well. I was using the forehands quite well. So I am just happy with the overall performance. It&#8217;s never easy. You got to make these shots. You&#8217;ve got to get his serves back in the court and try to win the rallies.&#8221; <\/b>{nl}{nl}Nole got two wins out of three matches and has earned 400 ATP points so far.{nl}{nl}He faces no.2 seed Swiss Roger Federer on Saturday not before 9:00 pm CET. Djokovic and Federer have met 18 times, Federer leads 12-6.{nl}{nl}The first singles match sees world no.1 Rafael Nadal take on fifth-seeded Andy Murray.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s great for the tournament to see us playing in the semi-final. And then on the other hand Nadal and Murray,&#8221;<\/b> said Novak ahead of semi-final matches. <b>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a great atmosphere. It&#8217;s the last tournament of the year, except the Davis Cup final that I&#8217;m playing next week. It&#8217;s a great achievement that I already reached the semi-final. I will try to give my best tomorrow night.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl} <img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/726.jpg><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.3 and 2008 champion Novak Djokovic advanced into the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals semifinal with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over no.8 seed American Andy Roddick in just 65 minutes in his final Group A round robin match at the O2 arena on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[734],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-barclays-atp-world-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","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=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28173,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/28173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}