{"id":125692,"date":"2019-10-02T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=125692"},"modified":"2019-10-02T17:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:35:14","slug":"novak-into-tokyo-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-into-tokyo-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak into Tokyo quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 Novak Djokovic continued his run at the <a href=\"https:\/\/rakutenopen.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships<\/a> as he advanced easily to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak defeated Japanese wild card Go Soeda 6-3, 7-5 in 1 hour and 34 minutes on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was another strong performance in Tokyo. The top seed broke the 35-year-old home favourite four times from 12 opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;He made me work for my win today and the atmosphere was really good on the court,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;I enjoyed it. I think I played a pretty good tennis match. From the baseline, I was solid, aggressive when I needed to be and taking the ball early. I served very well until that game when I was serving for the match at 5-3. I made some double faults, I missed all my first serves, and allowed him to break back and come back into the match. But there were not too many negatives today, because I had chances constantly. I had match points at 5-4, but he just came up with some very good shots and fought hard and that&#8217;s why we give him credit. But from my side, I&#8217;m really pleased.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (10-3), double faults (2-1), winners (25-22), unforced errors (18-24), total points won (77-56).<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the next round on Friday, Novak will play against no.5 seed Lucas Pouille (FRA).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak defeated Japanese wild card Go Soeda 6-3, 7-5 to move into the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships last eight. He will next play no.5 seed Lucas Pouille (FRA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":125687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012210,101013088,101010525,101012361],"class_list":["post-125692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-japan-en","tag-rakuten-japan-open-tennis-championships-en","tag-round-2-en","tag-tokyo-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125692","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=125692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125741,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125692\/revisions\/125741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}