{"id":144210,"date":"2021-05-27T15:48:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=144210"},"modified":"2021-05-27T18:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T16:12:20","slug":"nole-blitzes-coria-to-reach-belgrade-open-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-blitzes-coria-to-reach-belgrade-open-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole blitzes Coria to reach Belgrade Open semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic moved into the semi-finals of the inaugural Belgrade Open, following a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Federico Coria on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted only 56 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Novak broke three times in each set. The only game the 96th-ranked Argentine won was an unexpected break of Nole\u2019s serve at 4-0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It was a great performance,&#8221;<\/strong> the Serbian ace said on-court. <strong>&#8220;And probably one of the best matches, if not the best match, I played this year. I felt fantastic on the court from the first point.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For a spot in the ATP 250 event final, Novak will face qualifier Andrej Martin (SVK, ATP #119), who eliminated fifth seed Dusan Lajovic (SRB) in three sets.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic improved to 18-3 on the season, and is now fifth in tour-level wins in the Open Era (952), with only Jimmy Connors, Roger Federer, Ivan Lendl and Rafael Nadal in front.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak moved into the last four of the inaugural Belgrade Open, following a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Federico Coria. For a spot in the ATP 250 event final, the top seed will face qualifier Andrej Martin (SVK, ATP #119). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":144208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012178,101012319,101013189,101011403,101012262],"class_list":["post-144210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-belgrade-en","tag-belgrade-open-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-serbia-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144210","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=144210"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144262,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144210\/revisions\/144262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}