The 34-year-old Serbian star beat Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-2, 6-0 in just 70 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n Djokovic converted five of his 10 break point chances and saved the only break point he faced during the 19th career meeting between the two (17-2 H2H record).<\/p>\n “Matches are not getting easier, but my level of tennis is getting better and better,”<\/strong> Novak said. \u201cI know that I’m kind of a player that the further the tournament goes, the better I’m feeling on the court. That’s the case here. It was my best performance of the tournament tonight against a very good opponent. I know Kei’s game very well. Him playing in Japan, this court where he had lots of success. I knew that he was going to play very quick, and he was not going to give me a lot of time, so I had to be very alert. I feel I had an answer for everything he had.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n Match statistics: aces (3-0), double faults (4-2), winners (8-6), unforced errors (13-16), total points won (59-31).<\/p>\n Novak goes on to play no.4 seed Alexander Zverev on Saturday. The German dispatched Jeremy Chardy (FRA) in straight sets.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP) and Karen Khachanov (ROC) complete semi-final line-up.<\/p>\n In the mixed doubles quarter-finals, Novak and Nina Stojanovic produced a dominant display to defeat Germans Kevin Krawietz and Laura Siegemund 6-1, 6-2. They will next face Aslan Karatsev and Elena Vesnina of Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n Photos: Fonet<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The world no.1 beat Kei Nishikori of Japan 6-2, 6-0 in just 70 minutes, as he continued his quest for a first Olympic tennis gold medal. Novak will next play Alexander Zverev (GER, 4) on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":147265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012210,101010574,101010550,101012361,101013206],"class_list":["post-147271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-japan-en","tag-olympic-games-en","tag-quarterfinals-en","tag-tokyo-en","tag-tokyo-olympics-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147271","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=147271"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147303,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147271\/revisions\/147303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/oi2021_10_fonet.jpg\")
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