{"id":1323,"date":"2011-08-13T02:44:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T01:44:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:52:18","slug":"spectacular-nole-sets-up-tsonga-semi-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/spectacular-nole-sets-up-tsonga-semi-final-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular Nole sets up Tsonga semi-final clash!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/863h.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photo: AP<\/font>{nl}{nl}<b>Nole is through to the Rogers Cup semi-finals with a fantastic 6-2, 6-1 victory over no.5 seed Frenchman Gael Monfils in just 73 minutes.<\/b>{nl}{nl}The 2011 Australian Open and Wimbledon champion has been continuing his amazing form in Montreal.{nl}{nl}An imperious display by the top-seeded Serbian star who is 51-1 on the season with eight ATP World Tour titles.{nl}{nl}Novak was on fire from 2-all in the opening set winning nine games in a row. He delighted the audience with brilliant, highly entertaining performance, wonderful ground strokes, powerful serve, great returns&#8230; Monfils took only one game in the second set, and Nole served out the match.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;I have played the best match of the tournament, no doubt. Everything was going well,&#8221;<\/b> said Novak. <b>&#8220;I had a difficult game on two-all to hold my serve. After that, when I made the first break, it was incredible. 9, 10 games in a row. I&#8217;m happy to see my game is progressing each day.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}<u>Match statistics<\/u>: aces (1-3), double faults (0-3), winners (18-8), unforced errors (15-19), total points won (59-36).{nl}{nl}Djokovic will face world no.16 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga for a place in the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event finals. The Frenchman beat Spaniard Nicolas Almagro earlier today. Tsonga previously eliminated Swiss Roger Federer.{nl}{nl}It will be their ninth encounter, the Frenchman leads 5-3. Nole won their last match in Wimbledon semi-finals.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;The last match was very close, very intense, very important for both of us,&#8221;<\/b> Djokovic said. <b>&#8220;He&#8217;s been playing better in last couple of months. I think he increased his level. He&#8217;s and all around player. He can play pretty well on all surfaces. He has a big serve. If he serves well, he can beat anybody. He showed that in previous couple of tournaments. So it&#8217;s going to be tough one. It&#8217;s a fast surface. I need to return well and hope that I can get some chances.&#8221; <\/b>{nl}{nl}The second semi-final sees Serbia&#8217;s Janko Tipsarevic take on American Mardy Fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole is through to the Rogers Cup semi-finals with a fantastic 6-2, 6-1 victory over no.5 seed Frenchman Gael Monfils in just 73 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010359],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-montreal-2011-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","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=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27996,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/27996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}