{"id":126915,"date":"2019-10-31T17:16:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=126915"},"modified":"2019-11-01T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:16:40","slug":"nole-powers-to-his-eighth-rolex-paris-masters-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-powers-to-his-eighth-rolex-paris-masters-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole powers to his eighth Rolex Paris Masters quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Four-time former champion Novak Djokovic beat Kyle Edmund 7-6 (7), 6-1 on Thursday to advance to his eighth quarter-final at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolexparismasters.com\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolex Paris Masters<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak converted his seventh set point to take the opener from the Brit. The Serbian top seed took the momentum into the second set as he broke his rival three times to pick up his 50th win of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic won 89 per cent of points on his first serve. The match lasted one hour and 22 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI was feeling energy-wise better and felt more alert, just more strength, more energy, more speed. I didn&#8217;t play so well, I think, from baseline in the first set. I served well. That got me to the tie-break,\u201d<\/strong> the world no.1 said. <strong>\u201cSecond set was the best set I&#8217;ve played so far in the tournament. Finished off with a winner, finished off with amazing return game. So of course the sensation is very positive. And I&#8217;m convinced that I&#8217;m headed in the right direction so that tomorrow will be even better.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (6-4), double faults (1-2), winners (19-20), unforced errors (14-20), total points won (69-48).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a place in the ATP Masters 1000 event semis, Novak will take on no.7 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas (H2H 1-2) on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Greek star defeated Alex de Minaur (AUS) in straight sets 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole November desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Calendar_November2019.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-time former champion beat Kyle Edmund 7-6 (7), 6-1 to advance into his eighth quarter-final in Bercy. Novak will next take on no.7 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas (H2H 1-2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":126909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011267,101012260,101013019,1039],"class_list":["post-126915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-paris-en","tag-rolex-paris-masters-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126915","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126954,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126915\/revisions\/126954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}