{"id":155948,"date":"2022-06-01T01:42:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=155948"},"modified":"2022-06-01T02:07:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T00:07:39","slug":"novak-falls-to-nadal-in-marathon-roland-garros-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-falls-to-nadal-in-marathon-roland-garros-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak falls to Nadal in marathon Roland Garros quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 59th meeting of their legendary rivalry, Novak and Rafa faced off on Tuesday night at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland Garros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The marathon showdown on Court Philippe Chatrier lasted four hours and 12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defending champion Novak Djokovic suffered a 2-6, 6-4, 2-6, 6-7 (4) defeat to 13-time titlist and no.5 seed Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals that ended in the early hours of Wednesday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two tennis greats put on a show in the opening set. Though the scoreline was one-sided, the majority of the rallies were fascinating with both players battling for dominance in a dynamic match from the baseline. Nadal broke twice, in the first and fifth games.<\/p>\n<p>The second set followed the similar pattern, as the Spaniard raced to a 3-0 lead with a double break. However, Djokovic increased his aggression and battled back, winning six of the last seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal again claimed an early double-break advantage in the third set to grab a two-sets-to-one lead, but the reigning champion quickly took a 3-0 lead in the fourth set. He was serving for the set at 5-3 and had two set points, but failed to capitalise on them. The Menorca native clawed his way back to force a tiebreak, which he won 7-4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Nadal was a better player at important moments. He was just able to take his tennis at another level at the beginning of all sets except the fourth,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said.<\/p>\n<p>Match stats: aces (5-3), double faults (4-4), winners (48-57), unforced errors (53-43).<\/p>\n<p>It is Nadal&#8217;s 29th victory over Novak (30-29 H2H record).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will have a couple of weeks to prepare for the grass court season and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Championships<\/a>. The 2022 Wimbledon will take place from June 27 to July 10.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has been victorious on the grass at SW19 six times. Last year he beat Italian Matteo Berrettini 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 in the final to win the 134th edition of the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world.<\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole 2022 June desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Calendar_June2022.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13-time titlist Rafael Nadal defeated defending champion Novak Djokovic in an intense four-set French Open quarter-final 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4) in four hours and 12 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":155944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012251,101010469,101012260,101011403,101010864,101013239],"class_list":["post-155948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-france-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-rafael-nadal-en","tag-roland-garros-2022-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155948","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=155948"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155967,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155948\/revisions\/155967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}