{"id":161408,"date":"2023-01-06T13:52:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T12:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=161408"},"modified":"2023-01-06T23:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T22:23:41","slug":"atp-adelaide-novak-downs-shapovalov-to-set-medvedev-semi-final-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/atp-adelaide-novak-downs-shapovalov-to-set-medvedev-semi-final-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Adelaide: Novak downs Shapovalov to set Medvedev semi-final showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.5 Novak Djokovic outplayed Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-4 in one hour and 55 minutes on Friday to advance into the <a href=\"https:\/\/adelaideinternational.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adelaide International 1<\/a> last four.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2007 champion was more clinical at key moments. The three breaks he made were enough for him to complete the eighth triumph in as many meetings with the Canadian. He saved three of the four break points he faced, and won 78% of points behind his first serve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI think the scoreline probably doesn\u2019t give you the right idea of what happened on the court. It was such a close match,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>\u201cIt was almost two hours for two sets. The first set was extremely exhausting for both of us. We pushed each other to the limit physically, lots of long exchanges, rallies, the first six, seven games. Early on he was a better player. He was dictating. Then, you know, I started finding my serve and my groove on the court. I just made him play. I felt he was a bit nervous. That&#8217;s what happens, the change of momentum happens very quickly on this level.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-6), double faults (3-7), total points won (80-62)<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a place in the ATP 250 event final, Novak will face third seed Daniil Medvedev.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star holds an 8-4 lead in his ATP H2H series against the Russian.<\/p>\n<p>They last met in a marathon three-set battle in the group phase at November\u2019s Nitto ATP Finals (6-3, 6-7, 7-6).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHe\u2019s definitely one of the best players in the world for the past five years. He\u2019s established himself as a Grand Slam winner and a no.1 in the world, so he\u2019s someone I respect a lot. We had some amazing battles over the years and I\u2019m hoping for another good battle tomorrow,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said of his clash with Medvedev.<\/p>\n<p>The top seed is chasing his 92nd tour-level title.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AFP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak outplayed Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-4 in one hour and 55 minutes to advance into the last four at the Adelaide International 1. Next up for Nole is Russian Daniil Medvedev (Saturday at 11:00 CET)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":161406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013173,101013309,101012178,101011992,101010550],"class_list":["post-161408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-adelaide-en","tag-adelaide-international-en","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-australia","tag-quarterfinals-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161408","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=161408"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161494,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161408\/revisions\/161494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}