{"id":159420,"date":"2022-11-03T19:53:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=159420"},"modified":"2022-11-03T21:04:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:04:48","slug":"novak-races-past-khachanov-into-paris-masters-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-races-past-khachanov-into-paris-masters-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak races past Khachanov into Paris Masters quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole is three wins away from capturing his seventh crown at Paris-Bercy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Six-time champion Novak Djokovic recorded a commanding 6-4, 6-1 victory against world no.19 Karen Khachanov on Thursday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolexparismasters.com\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> to reach the last eight.<\/strong> <strong>The match lasted one hour and 27 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak started strong, but the Russian recovered from an early 0-3 deficit to draw level. However, the Serbian star converted another chance in the 10th game and grabbed the opening set.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic broke Khachanov twice in the second set, in the fourth and sixth games, to wrap up the win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe first set was quite even, I had my chances, he had a break, and he was hanging on. I broke his serve in the 10th game of the first set and I think after that the momentum shifted. In the second set I was a different player. I think I stepped it up even more, served better, and I\u2019m just really pleased with the way I finished,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said after the match.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (2-2), double faults (3-2), winners (18-10), unforced errors (16-28), total points won (65-40).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak&#8217;s quarter-final opponent on Friday at 19:30 CET will be Lorenzo Musetti (H2H 2-0).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 23rd-ranked Italian upset no.3 seed Casper Ruud in three sets 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Nole is chasing a record-extending seventh trophy at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in the French capital and a record-extending 39th Masters 1000 title overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six-time champion recorded a commanding 6-4, 6-1 victory against world no.19 Karen Khachanov on Thursday to reach the last eight at the ATP Masters 1000 event in the French capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":159418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,133,101011267,101012260,101013019,1039],"class_list":["post-159420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-paris-en","tag-rolex-paris-masters-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159420","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=159420"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159455,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159420\/revisions\/159455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}