{"id":1180,"date":"2011-01-23T04:54:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T03:54:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:59:48","slug":"fantastic-nole-easily-through-to-quarter-finals-of-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/fantastic-nole-easily-through-to-quarter-finals-of-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Nole easily through to quarter-finals of Australian Open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/794.jpg> {nl}{nl}Australian Open 2008 champion Novak Djokovic has overpowered Spain\u2019s Nicolas Almagro in straight sets 6-3, 6-4, 6-0 in 1 hour and 44 minutes to progress to his fourth successive  quarter-finals in Melbourne.{nl}{nl}Djokovic opened their second career clash with a hold . He grabbed his first break of the match in the fourth game and then consolidated the break to increase his lead to 4-1. The Serb took the set 6-3 in 31 minutes.{nl}{nl}A break in the third game was enough for the world no.3 to win the second set 6-4.{nl}{nl}Nole showed no mercy in the third set. The 23-year-old broke his opponent\u2019s service three times and wrapped up the set and match in very convincing fashion 6-0. {nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;It was a very good match. Serve was great today, and it&#8217;s important to raise a level of performance as I did today, you know, before the quarterfinals&#8221;<\/b>, said Novak in his postmatch interview.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;Now the opponents are very difficult and matches are tough and unpredictable. It was a great match for me today. I had a tough opponent, big hitter, and I could test couple things in my game. It was important for me to spend as less time on the court as I could, and that&#8217;s what I did. I&#8217;m hitting the ball well. Physically and mentally I&#8217;m fit and ready to win another match. So I&#8217;m taking one match at a time, and seriously, analyzing my next opponent.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}Djokovic served 12 aces to Almagro\u2019s 5, and made 4 double faults to Almagro\u2019s 2.{nl}{nl}The Serb hit 31 winners, 16 more than Almagro, and had 17 unforced errors to his opponent\u2019s 35.{nl}{nl}Nole converted 5 of his 13 break points, while the Spainiard didn\u2019t use any of his 3 break point chances.{nl}{nl}Shot of the day:{nl}{nl}<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"525\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ymG0Id2SWfM?hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe>{nl}{nl}Djokovic will next play against sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych. The Czech beat no.9 seed Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-4, 6-2, 6-3.{nl}{nl}Novak and Berdych have met five times, Nole leads 4-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Open 2008 champion Novak Djokovic has overpowered Spain\u2019s Nicolas Almagro in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 6-0 in 1 hour and 44 minutes to progress to his fourth successive quarter-finals in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010220],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2011-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","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=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26957,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/26957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}