{"id":125833,"date":"2019-10-04T08:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T06:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=125833"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:31:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:31:58","slug":"impressive-novak-ousts-pouille-to-reach-japan-open-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/impressive-novak-ousts-pouille-to-reach-japan-open-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Novak ousts Pouille to reach Japan Open semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic powered into the last four of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rakutenopen.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships<\/a> following\u00a0a convincing 6-1, 6-2 win against fifth seed Lucas Pouille on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak broke five times from six opportunities and suffered one break during the 51-minute contest. He improved to a perfect 3-0 H2H record against the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Serbian star claimed 82 per cent of first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It was definitely one of the best matches I\u2019ve played this year. Best one of this week and it came at the right time,&#8221; <\/strong>Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;Lucas was playing really well the first couple of matches in this tournament. <\/strong><strong>I saw him play a couple of days ago against Nishioka and he was playing really well. I took away the time from him. I served well, served many aces, returned a lot of his serves back and just used every opportunity to come in. Just overall, a really flawless performance.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (8-0), double faults (0-2), winners (22-8), unforced errors (8-17), total points won (53-23).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a spot in the ATP 500 tournament final, Novak will meet no.3 seed David Goffin on Saturday (H2H 6-1). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Belgian defeated Hyeon Chung (KOR) in straight sets (6-2, 6-2).<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is aiming to capture his fourth title in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole recorded his third victory at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, ousting fifth seed Lucas Pouille 6-1, 6-2 in just 51 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":125829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101012210,101011403,101013088,101012361],"class_list":["post-125833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-japan-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-rakuten-japan-open-tennis-championships-en","tag-tokyo-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125833","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=125833"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125902,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125833\/revisions\/125902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}