{"id":137425,"date":"2020-10-05T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=137425"},"modified":"2020-10-06T14:40:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:40:45","slug":"novak-downs-khachanov-to-reach-11th-consecutive-french-open-qfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-downs-khachanov-to-reach-11th-consecutive-french-open-qfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak downs Khachanov to reach 11th consecutive French Open QFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole continues his impressive run on Parisian clay&#8230;<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic produced another solid win on Monday, when he beat no.15 seed Karen Khachanov (RUS) 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 to advance into his 11th straight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roland Garros<\/a> quarter-finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fourth-round contest on Court Philippe-Chatrier lasted two hours and 23 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Focused Novak eased through his first real test in Paris. He capitalised on five of 14 break point chances, while Khachanov converted only two of his nine opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Though he lost a couple of breaks, Djokovic grew in confidence as the match was progressing. He was constantly turning defence into attack, putting his rival under pressure that he could not maintain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It was a very even match. I think it was more difficult than the result shows,&#8221;<\/strong> said Novak. <strong>&#8220;We played evenly point for point. I found my serve at the right moment.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (2-5), double faults (1-4), winners (44-31), unforced errors (28-31), total points won (112-88).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a spot in the French Open last four, Novak will play against 17th seed Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP, 3-1 H2H record) on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is bidding to become the first man in the Open Era to complete the career Grand Slam twice.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole produced another solid win when he beat no.15 seed Karen Khachanov (RUS) 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 to advance into his 14th Roland Garros quarter-finals. For a spot in the last four, the top seed will play Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP, 17).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":137422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[93,101011211,101010469,101012260,101013159],"class_list":["post-137425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-fourth-round","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris-en","tag-roland-garros-2020-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137425","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=137425"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137525,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137425\/revisions\/137525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}