{"id":147171,"date":"2021-07-28T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T09:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=147171"},"modified":"2021-07-28T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:36:42","slug":"novak-advances-to-quarter-finals-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-advances-to-quarter-finals-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak into Tokyo quarters in singles and doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole is three wins away from his first Olympic title.<\/p>\n<p>World no.1 Novak Djokovic continued his bid for a calendar Golden Slam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian star is into the quarterfinals at the <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/tokyo-2020\/en\/sports\/tennis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a>, following a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Spain&#8217;s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina at Ariake Tennis Park on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak broke the 16th seed once in the first set and three times in the second to seal the win after one hour and 23 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (9-0), double faults (1-2), winners (11-12), unforced errors (12-23), total points won (67-44).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will face Japan&#8217;s Kei Nishikori (16-2 H2H) in the last eight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 20-time Grand Slam champion is bidding to become the first man to win a calendar &#8220;Golden Slam&#8221; (all four Grand Slams + the Olympics in one year)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic partnered Nina Stojanovic in the mixed doubles competition. The Serbian duo combined superbly to defeat Brazilians Marcelo Melo and Luisa Stefani 6-3, 6-4. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a place in the semi-finals they will take on German combination of Laura Siegemund und Kevin Krawietz.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world number one breezed past no.16 seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1, to reach the last eight at the Tokyo Olympics. He will next play Japan&#8217;s Kei Nishikori. Novak is also through to the mixed doubles quarter-finals (w\/Nina Stojanovic).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":147167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012210,101010574,1039,101012361,101013206],"class_list":["post-147171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-japan-en","tag-olympic-games-en","tag-third-round","tag-tokyo-en","tag-tokyo-olympics-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147171","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=147171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147235,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147171\/revisions\/147235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}