{"id":124032,"date":"2019-08-16T02:40:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=124032"},"modified":"2019-08-16T03:39:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T01:39:44","slug":"novak-reaches-cincinnati-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-reaches-cincinnati-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak marches on into Cincinnati quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic cruised into the quarter-finals at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsopen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western &amp; Southern Open<\/a> after a masterclass performance against qualifier Pablo Carreno Busta on Thursday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak, who became the first singles player to achieve Career Golden Masters by claiming the 2018 Cincinnati title, captured a 6-3, 6-4 victory over the Spaniard in one hour and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>One break of serve in each set was enough for the top seed to defeat his rival and improve to a 37-6 W\/L record on the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Serbian star saved all four break points he faced during the clash and was 12\/14 on net approaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m very pleased with the performance today because I played against a very good, quality player tonight. It&#8217;s a straight-sets win, but probably the score doesn&#8217;t indicate how tough it was on the court,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;Overall, it was a really, really good match.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (8-0), double faults (0-2), winners (30-15), unforced errors (22-17), total points won (70-54).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next face Lucas Pouille (ATP #31), whom he beat in the semi-final of the Australian Open in January (6-0, 6-2, 6-2).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman upset eighth seed Karen Khachanov in three sets, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 cruised into the quarter-finals at the Western &#038; Southern Open after a masterclass performance against qualifier Pablo Carreno Busta (6:3, 6:4). He will next face Frenchman Lucas Pouille (ATP #31).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":124029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012291,101011546,101011267,101013076],"class_list":["post-124032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-cincinnati-en","tag-defending-champion-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-western-and-southern-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124032","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=124032"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124081,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124032\/revisions\/124081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}