{"id":1328,"date":"2011-08-19T00:18:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T23:18:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:45:46","slug":"noles-55th-win-in-2011-for-cincinnati-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/noles-55th-win-in-2011-for-cincinnati-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole&#8217;s 55th win in 2011 for Cincinnati quarter-finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/863m.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photo: AP<\/font>{nl}{nl}Nole continues his remarkable run in 2011.{nl}{nl}<b>The Western &#038; Southern Open top-seed dismissed world no.29 Czech Radek Stepanek in straight sets on Thursday to reach quarter-finals of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event.<\/b>{nl}{nl}He needed 1 hour and 22 minutes to claim a 6-3, 6-3 victory against the former top 10 player.{nl}{nl}The world number one opened the match with an ace and held serve in the first game. He made a break in the fourth game for 3-1 lead, but Stepanek broke back immediately. We saw third consecutive break on centre court, and this time Nole held to consolidate it for 5-2. He failed to convert two break\/set points in the eighth game, but used his chance serving for the set and took it 6-3 in 45 minutes.{nl}{nl}There were six breaks in the second set, Nole made four to win another match this year and book his place in the last eight.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;There are periods of the match where I serve okay and then periods where I serve very bad, but that&#8217;s okay,&#8221;<\/b> said Novak. <b>&#8220;It all happens. I played so many matches, and they caught up to me a little bit. It&#8217;s expected that some part of my game is not working 100 per cent. But I believe that tomorrow the serve will be better. It&#8217;s important to have the right mindset and positive attitude. I don&#8217;t think that my rhythm is bad, it&#8217;s just a little bit my toss and I&#8217;m out of balance on my serve and I&#8217;m forcing it a little bit too much. Maybe I should go a little bit for percentage rather than speed.&#8221;{nl}<\/b>{nl}<u>Match statistics<\/u>: aces (3-3), double faults (1-1), winners (18-9), unforced errors (19-23).{nl}{nl}The 24-year-old Serbian star improved to a 55-1 (31-0 on hard) season record. {nl}{nl}Novak next plays no.6 seed Gael Monfils. The Frenchman eliminated world no.47 German Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-2, 6-2. Djokovic has defeated Monfils in their previous 7 meetings, the last was in Montreal 6-2, 6-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top-seed dismissed world no.29 Czech Radek Stepanek in straight sets on Thursday to reach the Western &#038; Southern Open quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011861],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-cincinnati-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","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=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27988,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/27988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}