{"id":129310,"date":"2020-01-10T05:34:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T04:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=129310"},"modified":"2020-01-11T06:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T05:31:06","slug":"novak-and-lajovic-send-serbia-to-atp-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-and-lajovic-send-serbia-to-atp-cup-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak and Lajovic send Serbia to ATP Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Both Novak and Dusan Lajovic scored singles wins against Canada in the Final 8 clash of the inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atpcup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATP Cup<\/a> in Sydney to send team Serbia into the semis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lajovic gave Serbia a 1-0 lead on Friday, beating Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Novak then defeated Denis Shapovalov after two hours and 39 minutes, winning a final-set tie-break.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian star rallied from a set down to clinch a 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) win.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He now leads Shapovalov 5-0 in their ATP H2H series.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/syaNiFsXlUI\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It was an amazing match. One of the closest matches I&#8217;ve played against Denis. He played fantastic, very aggressive, served great. We fought both until the last shot,&#8221; <\/strong>Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;In Brisbane we had amazing support but this has taken it to another level. It fully felt like I was playing at home today.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For a place in the ATP Cup title match, Serbia meets Russia on Saturday at 11:00 local time (01:00 CET). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will take on Daniil Medvedev against whom he owns a 3-2 H2H record.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The other semifinal will be Australia against Spain.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lajovic gave Serbia a 1-0 lead against Canada. Novak rallied from a set down to clinch a 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) win and put team Serbia into the semis. He will take on Daniil Medvedev (RUS) on Saturday (03:00 CET).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":129308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013097,101012285,101010550,101012262,101013085],"class_list":["post-129310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-cup-en","tag-canada-en","tag-quarterfinals-en","tag-serbia-en","tag-sydney-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129310","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=129310"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129521,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129310\/revisions\/129521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}