{"id":144916,"date":"2021-06-07T17:44:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=144916"},"modified":"2021-06-07T21:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:44:47","slug":"nole-produces-marvelous-comeback-to-beat-musetti-and-reach-rg-last-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-produces-marvelous-comeback-to-beat-musetti-and-reach-rg-last-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole produces marvelous comeback to beat Musetti and reach RG last eight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole came through his first major test at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland Garros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed and 2016 champion Novak Djokovic continued his quest for a 19th Grand Slam title as he completed a comeback from two-sets-to-love down on Monday for a place in the French Open quarter-finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The world no.1 progressed after three hours and 27 minutes of play on Court Philippe-Chatrier, when the in-form Italian Lorenzo Musetti retired at 6-7 (7), 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-0, 4-0.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak dropped the first two sets, both in tie-break, but stayed composed and dominated the rest of the match. He stormed through the remainder, losing just one game.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (11-1), double faults (2-2), winners (53-30), unforced errors (42-49), total points won (150-103).<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is through to the last eight in Paris for a 12th consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In his 49th career major quarterfinal, the 34-year-old Serbian star will take on ninth seed Matteo Berrettini (H2H 1-0).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Italian was through to the quarter-finals after the 2009 French Open champion and no.8 seed Roger Federer withdrew from the tournament ahead of their fourth-round match.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the next challenge, Novak said: <strong>\u201cHe has a big serve, big forehand \u2013 two big weapons. He&#8217;s in form. He finished the last year very strong. He started this year strong as well, beating Dominic Thiem in Australia, playing a really good ATP Cup. He just has so much firepower in his game. I will need to be at my best in order to have a chance to win.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak  continued his quest for a 19th Grand Slam title as he completed a comeback from two-sets-to-love down on Monday for a place in the French Open quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 progressed after three hours and 27 minutes of play on Court Philippe-Chatrier, when Lorenzo Musetti retired at 6-7 (7), 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-0, 4-0. In his 49th career major quarterfinal, Novak will take on ninth seed Matteo Berrettini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":144844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[235,93,101011211,101010469,101012260,101013190],"class_list":["post-144916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-comeback","tag-fourth-round","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris-en","tag-roland-garros-2021-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144916","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=144916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144921,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144916\/revisions\/144921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}