{"id":1218,"date":"2011-03-17T00:53:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:53:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:32:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:32:35","slug":"novak-charges-into-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-charges-into-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak charges into quarter-finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/855d.jpg> {nl}{nl}The Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic continued his smooth progress at the BNP Paribas Open, advancing to the quarter-finals at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tennis event with a 6-0, 6-1 win over fellow Serbian Viktor Troicki in just 66 minutes on Wednesday in Indian Wells.{nl}{nl}The 23-year-old Belgrade native opened the match with a love service hold and made a triple break for 6-0.{nl}{nl}Troicki saved a break point in the second game of the second set with a forehand winner and went on to hold with an ace for his first game to the delight of the crowd. Nole broke his opponent\u2019s serve two more times for 5-1 lead. He saved two break points before wrapping up the win using his fifth match point.{nl}{nl}Another easy victory for the world no.3 who has dropped just six games so far this week and has enjoyed a bagel set in each of his three matches at the tournament. {nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m playing incredible tennis,&#8221;<\/b> said Novak in his postmatch interview. <b>&#8220;I think I&#8217;m playing really, really solid and getting a lot of balls back into the court and making my opponent play an extra shot&#8230; I think he had a very bad match in general.  But I was very solid, and I keep on playing well, so this is what makes me happy.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}Djokovic fired 1 ace to Troicki\u2019s three, and served four double faults to Troicki\u2019s five.{nl}{nl}The younger Serb won 73 per cent of points when he landed his first serve.{nl}{nl}Novak hit 12 winners to Viktor\u2019s 8, and made 13 unforced errors, while Troicki had 26.{nl}{nl}He next faces world no.21 Richard Gasquet. The Frenchman upset eighth seeded American Andy Roddick 6-3, 7-6. Djokovic won three of four matches they played.{nl}{nl}<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"525\" height=\"424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PQxVUc5QxeI?hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>{nl}{nl}Nole and Viktor joined forces against Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pakistan) and Rohan Bopanna (India) in the doubles quarter-finals. They lost 1-6, 6-7(5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic continued his smooth progress at the BNP Paribas Open, advancing to the quarter-finals at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tennis event with a 6-0, 6-1 win over fellow Serbian Viktor Troicki in just 66 minutes on Wednesday in Indian Wells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011955],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-indian-wells-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","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=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28105,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/28105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}