{"id":137647,"date":"2020-10-07T22:12:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=137647"},"modified":"2020-10-07T22:14:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:14:04","slug":"rg-nole-battles-past-carreno-busta-faces-tsitsipas-in-last-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rg-nole-battles-past-carreno-busta-faces-tsitsipas-in-last-four\/","title":{"rendered":"RG: Nole battles past Carreno Busta, faces Tsitsipas in last four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic continued his pursuit of a second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roland Garros<\/a> title on Wednesday, following a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 comeback triumph over no.17 seed Pablo Carreno Busta to progress into his 10th French Open semi-final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carreno Busta started well, taking the opening set to go in front. It was the first set the 33-year-old Serbian star dropped through five matches in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic regained his composure quickly and managed to get back on level terms, breaking the Spaniard twice in the second set.<\/p>\n<p>The two had traded breaks once in the third set, before the 17-time Grand Slam titlist made a crucial break in the eighth game and then served out the set to love, to take a two sets to one lead.<\/p>\n<p>A break in the seventh game of the fourth set was enough for Nole to close out the match on Court Philippe-Chatrier after three hours and 10 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (2-3), double faults (5-3), winners (53-42), unforced errors (41-29), total points won (130-113).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak, who is 36-1 in 2020, will look to continue his impressive form against fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas who defeated Andrey Rublev (RUS, 13) 7-5, 6-3, 6-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has a 3-2 record against the Greek. It will be their first meeting on clay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2) and Diego Schwartzman (ARG, 12) complete the Friday&#8217;s semi-final line-up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak continued his pursuit of a second Roland Garros title on Wednesday, following a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 comeback triumph over no.17 seed Pablo Carreno Busta to progress into his 10th French Open semi-final. The top seed will next take on fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) who defeated Andrey Rublev (RUS, 13) in straight sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":137581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011211,101010469,101012260,101011403,101013159],"class_list":["post-137647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-roland-garros-2020-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137647","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=137647"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137657,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137647\/revisions\/137657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}