{"id":120570,"date":"2019-05-16T21:39:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T19:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=120570"},"modified":"2019-05-16T22:46:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T20:46:43","slug":"novak-wins-twice-in-rome-for-quarter-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-wins-twice-in-rome-for-quarter-final-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak wins twice in Rome for quarter-final spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Four-time former champion Novak Djokovic completed his second victory of the day at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a>, when he beat Philipp Kohlschreiber on Thursday evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 improved to a 21-4 W\/L record this year following a 6-3, 6-0 win over the German for a place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Novak needed only 62 minutes to advance. The Serbian star made an early break and stormed to a 3-0 lead, then went on to take the opening set 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic carried the momentum into the second set, breaking his opponent three times for his 10th triumph in 12 career meetings with Kohlschreiber.<\/p>\n<p>The top seed had 100% realization of his break point opportunities (4\/4), having saved all three break points he faced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m very pleased with both matches. I was very solid. I got off to a great start in both matches and never lost rhythm, really,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (2-2), double faults (3-0), winners (22-5), unforced errors (16-19), total points won (58-34).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next play no.7 seed Juan Martin del Potro (ARG) against whom he owns a 15-4 career mark.<\/strong> They have met twice in Rome quarters, Novak was victorious both times (2009, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to del Potro challenge, Djokovic said: <strong>\u201cHe\u2019s a top-class player. He always has been. I have tons of respect for him as a player and also as a person. He has a huge serve, huge forehand, probably one of the best, if not the best, forehands on the Tour, one of the best serves. He uses that really well. He\u2019s struggled a lot with injuries but he seems to be feeling good and playing well here, so it\u2019s going to be a tough one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole improved to a 21-4 W\/L record this year following a 6-3, 6-0 win over Philipp Kohlschreiber for a place in the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia last 8. He goes on to play no.7 seed Juan Martin del Potro (H2H 15-4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":120568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101013054,101011267,101012240,1039],"class_list":["post-120570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-2019-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rome-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120570","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=120570"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120639,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120570\/revisions\/120639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}