{"id":1264,"date":"2011-05-13T22:53:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T21:53:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:12:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:12:35","slug":"fantastic-djokovic-storms-past-soderling-sets-up-murray-semi-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/fantastic-djokovic-storms-past-soderling-sets-up-murray-semi-final-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Djokovic storms past Soderling, sets up Murray semi-final clash!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/859g.jpg> {nl}{nl}Another Friday, another victory for the seventh semi-finals in 2011!{nl}{nl}<b>World no.2 Novak Djokovic outlasted fifth-seeded Robin Soderling of Sweden in straight sets 6-3, 6-0 in 76 minutes to power into the final four at the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia.<\/b>{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Soderling were last up on Centrale Stadium. Many were waiting to see if Soderling could be the one to stop the Serbian no.1.{nl}{nl}Djokovic was broken to love in the opening game of the match, but he broke back immediately to level at 1-all. Soderling earned two break points in the seventh game, but Novak held for 4-3. It turned out to be the crucial moment in the match. The Swede started making unforced errors, dropped his serve and Nole closed the first set 6-3.{nl}{nl}Another extraordinary display from Novak and another bagel. The no.2 seed made a triple break to clinch the second set and match 6-0 finishing with an ace.{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cI was aware of the importance of the match and the quality of my opponent,\u201d<\/b> Djokovic said. <b>\u201cHe\u2019s a big server, a very big hitter, so I really needed to stay focused the whole time.\u201d <\/b>{nl}{nl}Match statistics: aces (4-2), double faults (1-1), winners (22-13), unforced errors (14-26).{nl}{nl}Djokovic capitalised on 5 of his 9 break point opportunities, while Soderling converted only 1 of his 4 chances.{nl}{nl}Novak will play against no.4 seed Brit Andy Murray for a place in the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event finals. Murray beat world no.28 German Florian Mayer 1-6, 6-1, 6-1.{nl}{nl}Nole and Andy have played eighth times, seven days younger Djokovic leads 5-3. The 23-year-old Belgrade native won their last match at the Australian Open 2011, 6-4, 6-2, 6-3, when he captured his second Grand Slam title.{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cHe\u2019s a great opponent,\u201d<\/b> Nole praised Murray. <b>\u201cWe know each other very well. We played last time in the Australian Open final. Obviously he\u2019s motivated to win, so it\u2019s going to be a tough one.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}Novak has the longest match winning streak to begin the season (35-0) since John McEnroe went 42-0 in 1984. Overall he has the sixth-longest match winning streak since complete records began being kept in 1975.{nl}{nl}World no.1 Spaniard Rafael Nadal takes on  Frenchman Richard Gasquet in the other semi-final match on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.2 Novak Djokovic outlasted fifth-seeded Robin Soderling of Sweden in straight sets 6-3, 6-0 in 76 minutes to power into the final four at the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia on Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011918],"class_list":["post-1264","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\/1264","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=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28055,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/28055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}