{"id":156544,"date":"2022-07-03T23:51:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=156544"},"modified":"2022-07-04T00:50:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T22:50:46","slug":"novak-into-13th-wimbledon-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-into-13th-wimbledon-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak into 13th Wimbledon quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak continued his pursuit of a seventh Wimbledon title as he reached the last eight with a four-set victory over Dutch wildcard Tim van Rijthoven.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sixth-time champion Novak Djokovic booked his place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> quarter-finals on Sunday evening, following a 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 win over Tim van Rijthoven.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star advanced after two hours and 37 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>Novak was challenged by his opponent&#8217;s powerful serve and forehand, but he produced a brilliant response to dropping the second set. The top seed raced to a 5-0 lead in the third set to re-estabish his dominance. He wrapped up the win breaking twice more in the fourth set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;He was a very tough opponent, and on a streak on this surface, so I knew it wasn&#8217;t going to be easy with that serve and his touch and a lot of talent. It took me a little bit of time to get used to his pace and the conditions under the roof, but overall I closed out the match well,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said after his fourth-round triumph on Centre Court. <strong>&#8220;I am looking forward to the next challenge.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (2-20), double faults (2-5), winners (28-41), unforced errors (19-53), total points won (126-94).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will look to continue his run when he plays 10th seed Jannik Sinner (ITA) on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the same half of the draw, David Goffin (BEL) will take on Cameron Norrie (GBR).<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is bidding for a fourth successive triumph at the All England Club and his 21st Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixth-time champion Novak Djokovic booked his place in the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Sunday evening, following a 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 win over Tim van Rijthoven. Novak will look to continue his run when he plays Jannik Sinner (ITA, 10) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":156536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101011671,101012193,101011216,101013242,101012275],"class_list":["post-156544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-great-britain-en","tag-london-en","tag-round-4-en","tag-wimbledon-2022-en","tag-wimbledon-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156544","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156544"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156616,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156544\/revisions\/156616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}