{"id":127031,"date":"2019-11-01T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=127031"},"modified":"2019-11-01T19:38:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:38:31","slug":"novak-puts-on-masterclass-to-set-up-dimitrov-semis-in-bercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-puts-on-masterclass-to-set-up-dimitrov-semis-in-bercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak puts on masterclass to set up Dimitrov semis in Bercy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nole is two wins away from a fifth title in Bercy after impressive display in quarters.<\/p>\n

Top seed Novak Djokovic was imperious in his quarter-final match against Stefanos Tsitsipas on Friday. <\/strong>The Serbian star was absolutely majestic as he masterclassed the seventh-seeded Greek 6-1, 6-2 in just 58 minutes to reach his fifth semi-final at the Rolex Paris Masters<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novak broke twice in each set, having denied his rival a single break point opportunity. With the win, Djokovic evened the score against Tsitsipas, they are now tied 2-2 in H2H meetings.<\/p>\n

“I played one of the best matches of the season. I prepared myself very well for this match,”<\/strong> Novak said. “I lost to Stefanos about three weeks ago in Shanghai, and obviously I went through the videos to better understand what I did well, what I didn’t do so well, what I can do better. I served well. I read his serve very well, also. Put him under pressure constantly. It was a great match.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics: aces (5-3), double faults (0-3), winners (18-8), unforced errors (10-20), total points won (54-30).<\/p>\n

Novak will face 2017 Nitto ATP Finals champion Grigor Dimitrov on Saturday. He leads the Bulgarian 8-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Serbian star was absolutely majestic as he masterclassed no.7 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-1, 6-2 in just 58 minutes to reach his fifth semi-final at the Rolex Paris Masters. He will meet 2017 Nitto ATP Finals champion Grigor Dimitrov on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":127029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011267,101012260,101011403,101013019],"class_list":["post-127031","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-quarterfinal-en","tag-rolex-paris-masters-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127031","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=127031"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127078,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127031\/revisions\/127078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}