{"id":126637,"date":"2019-10-11T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T08:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=126637"},"modified":"2019-10-11T12:14:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T10:14:12","slug":"tsitsipas-downs-novak-in-shanghai-masters-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/tsitsipas-downs-novak-in-shanghai-masters-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsipas downs Novak in Shanghai Masters quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No.6 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas beat top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shanghairolexmasters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolex Shanghai Masters<\/a> quarter-final on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Greek completed the second career victory over Novak in their three meetings, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. The match lasted 2 hours and 2 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak made an early break and kept the advantage to take a one-set lead. Tsitsipas recovered from a slow start, breaking the world no.1 once in the second and third sets to capture the biggest match win of his career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHe had the high-quality tennis and he played very well after his serve. He was backing up his serve with really good and aggressive first shots in the rally,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>\u201cI didn&#8217;t make him defend enough. I just gave him enough time to really dictate the play from back of the court and he deserved to win.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (8-11), double faults (2-3), winners (28-34), unforced errors (26-22), total points won (83-85).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian star will next play at the last ATP Masters 1000 event in 2019 &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolexparismasters.com\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> (October 28-November 3), where he was victorious four times (2009, 2013-2015). Last year Novak finished runner-up to Karen Khachanov.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No.6 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas beat top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic in the Rolex Shanghai Masters quarter-final on Friday. The Greek completed the second career victory over Novak in their three meetings, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. The match lasted 2 hours and 2 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":126635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012345,101011202,101011403,101013094,101012348],"class_list":["post-126637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-china-en","tag-masters-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-rolex-shanghai-masters-en","tag-shanghai-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126637","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=126637"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126672,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126637\/revisions\/126672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}