{"id":120075,"date":"2019-05-10T12:19:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T10:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=120075"},"modified":"2019-05-10T23:20:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:20:27","slug":"novak-through-to-semis-as-cilic-pulls-out-with-food-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-through-to-semis-as-cilic-pulls-out-with-food-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak through to semis as Cilic pulls out with food poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic is through to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madrid-open.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mutua Madrid Open<\/a> semi-finals with ninth seed Marin Cilic pulling out ahead of their quarter-final match on Friday due to food poisoning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will be Novak&#8217;s 62nd ATP Masters 1000 semi-final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDear fans, Mutua Madrid Open organizers, Novak, I am sorry to announce that I must withdraw from today&#8217;s match. I have had a terrible night dealing with a case of food poisoning. I am extremely disappointed to have my time in Madrid end in this way. Thank you for the support,\u201d<\/strong> Cilic announced on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The first semi-final is scheduled on Saturday at 16:00 CET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will take on Dominic Thiem (AUT, 5) who defeated Roger Federer (SUI, 4) in three sets, 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the other half of the draw, Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2) faces Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 8).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AFP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak will take on no.5 seed Dominic Thiem in Saturday&#8217;s semi-final (16:00 CET).  The Austrian defeated Roger Federer (SUI, 4) in three sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":120068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012611,101011267,101013053,101011403,330],"class_list":["post-120075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-marin-cilic-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-mutua-madrid-open-2019-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-withdrawal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120075","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=120075"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120121,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120075\/revisions\/120121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}