{"id":146317,"date":"2021-07-07T17:18:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=146317"},"modified":"2021-09-25T19:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T17:56:16","slug":"nole-downs-fucsovics-for-10th-semi-final-birth-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-downs-fucsovics-for-10th-semi-final-birth-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole downs Fucsovics for 10th semi-final berth at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic continued his quest for a third consecutive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> title with a straight-sets 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 quarter-final win over unseeded Marton Fucsovics on Centre Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top seed needed two hours and 17 minutes to record his 100th tour level win on grass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m aware of certain stats and obviously I love this sport with all my heart, body and soul,<\/strong>\u201d said Djokovic. <strong>\u201cI\u2019ve been devoted to this sport since I was four and sometimes things do look surreal, but I try to live in the moment and not take anything for granted. Going for history is a huge inspiration for me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak raced to a 5-0 lead with two early breaks. The Hungarian broke back once, but that was the only lapse in Djokovic\u2019s concentration during the match. He was rock solid in the remainder and broke on two more occasions to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI think it was a solid performance. I started off really well and didn\u2019t make too many things wrong in my game in the first six games of the match,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said on his latest performance. <strong>\u201cThen one break of serve in the second and third was enough to clinch the victory today. I have to give credit to Marton for fighting and hanging in there, he has had a great tournament.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-5), double faults (3-5), winners (23-24), unforced errors (30-31), total points won (106-86).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic, who is eyeing a record-equalling 20th Grand Slam trophy, will face no.10 seed Denis Shapovalov on Friday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov beat Karen Khachanov in five sets to book a spot in his first Major semis.<\/p>\n<p>Novak holds a perfect 6-0 H2H record against the Canadian.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak continued his quest for a third consecutive Wimbledon title with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win over unseeded Marton Fucsovics on Centre Court. He will face Denis Shapovalov (CAN, 10) in Friday&#8217;s semi-final. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":146269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011546,101010469,101010550,101011449,101013198],"class_list":["post-146317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-defending-champion-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-quarterfinals-en","tag-the-championships-en","tag-wimbledon-2021-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146317","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=146317"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148987,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146317\/revisions\/148987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}