{"id":150841,"date":"2021-11-27T20:51:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=150841"},"modified":"2021-11-29T01:18:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T00:18:58","slug":"flawless-novak-beats-struff-to-level-tie-serbia-germany-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/flawless-novak-beats-struff-to-level-tie-serbia-germany-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia to face Kazakhstan in Davis Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Serbia is through to the Davis Cup quarter-finals as one of the two best runners-up in group stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Germany prevailed in their opening tie in Group F of the <a href=\"https:\/\/live.daviscup.com\/en\/tie-detail.php\/M-DC-2021-FLS-F-M-SRB-GER-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals<\/a>, winning 2-1 over Serbia on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>In the first singles match of the day, Dominik Koepfer beat Filip Krajinovic 7-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Playing his 50th Davis Cup match, world no.1 Novak Djokovic defeated Jan-Lennard Struff in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4, to level up the Davis Cup tie in Innsbruck, Austria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak cruised to the victory in 72 minutes, breaking twice in the first set and once in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (9-2), double faults (0-1), winners (15-7), unforced errors (8-10), total points won (64-46).<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the decisive doubles rubber, Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz overcame Novak and Nikola Cacic 7-6 (5), 3-6, 7-6 (5) in two hours and 16 minutes to seal a 2-1 victory for Germany.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2010 champions advance into the quarter-finals as one of the two best second-placed teams together with the six group winners.<\/p>\n<p>The quarter-final line-up:<\/p>\n<p>Italy vs Croatia (November 29)<br \/>\nGreat Britain vs Germany (November 30)<br \/>\n<strong>Serbia<\/strong> vs Kazakhstan (December 1)<br \/>\nRTF vs Sweden (December 2)<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia is through to the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup as one of the two best runners-up. The 2010 champions will meet Kazakhstan on Wednesday, December 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":150837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013168,101013100,101012555,101013222,101013036],"class_list":["post-150841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-austria","tag-davis-cup-by-rakuten-finals-en","tag-germany-en","tag-innsbruck","tag-rr2-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150841","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=150841"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150933,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150841\/revisions\/150933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}