{"id":1263,"date":"2011-05-12T23:43:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T22:43:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:12:39","slug":"nole-faces-soderling-in-rome-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-faces-soderling-in-rome-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole faces Soderling in Rome quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/859e.jpg>{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo: Reuters<\/font>{nl}{nl}No.2 seed at the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia, Novak Djokovic, defeated no.14 seed Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4, 6-1  tonight in the third round of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament.{nl}{nl}Novak wrapped up the victory in 1 hour and 34 minutes to improve to a 34-0 this season.{nl}{nl}After both players failed to convert several break points, Novak finally used his chance in the tenth game of the opening set for 6-4.{nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player made a double break in the second set and consolidated them for a convincing 5-0 lead. The world no.2 closed the set and match 6-1.{nl}{nl}Djokovic capitalised on  3 of 9 break points, while Wawrinka didn\u2019t use any of his six chances for break.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;Today I had a tough opponent and I was aware of his qualities on clay. We played over an hour in the first set. I managed to get that crucial break, and from then on I played better,&#8221;<\/b> Nole said after the match.{nl} {nl}Novak will face no.5 seed Robin Soderling for a place in the semi-finals. The Swede beat Spaniard Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Soderling have met six times, Nole leads 5-1. The only match Soderling won was their last match, at the ATP World Tour Finals in London in 2009.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;The rounds and opponents are getting tougher, so I have to get ready for that,&#8221;<\/b> Novak said about the upcoming challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No.2 seed at the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia, Novak Djokovic, defeated no.14 seed Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4, 6-1  tonight in the third round of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011918],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-rome-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","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=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28056,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/28056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}