{"id":164092,"date":"2023-04-13T20:40:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=164092"},"modified":"2023-04-13T22:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T20:34:23","slug":"novak-stunned-by-musetti-in-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-stunned-by-musetti-in-monte-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak stunned by Musetti in Monte-Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak will not be playing in the 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters quarterfinals after he lost to ATP no.21 Lorenzo Musetti in the third round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lorenzo Musetti earned the greatest career victory on Thursday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/a>, when he upset world no.1 and top seed Novak Djokovic 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, to reach the ATP Masters 1000 event last eight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was very difficult for both players to compete in wet and windy conditions on Court Rainier III. Novak was broken eight times during the two-hour, 52-minute clash.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time former champion Djokovic took the opening set that featured five breaks of serve, three of which were made by the Serbian ace.<\/p>\n<p>In the second set, the two had traded breaks four times before the Italian grabbed the crucial break in the 11th game and served it out to level the contest.<\/p>\n<p>There was a 59-minute rain delay at the start of the deciding third set. Once play resumed, Djokovic struggled to find his rhythm. A break in the seventh game was enough for his rival to progress into his second Masters 1000 quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (1-6), double faults (6-0), winners (26-26), unforced errors (46-32), total points won (96-101).<\/p>\n<p>Novak was chasing a record-extending 39th ATP Masters 1000 title and his third trophy in Monte-Carlo, having triumphed in 2013 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ATP 250 clay-court event in Banja Luka &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Srpska Open<\/a> &#8211; is the next stop for Djokovic. It will be held from April 17 to April 23.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak will not be playing in the 2023 Monte-Carlo Masters quarterfinals after he lost to world no.21 Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 5-7, 4-6 in the third round. The ATP 250 event in Banja Luka &#8211; the Srpska Open &#8211; is the next stop for Djokovic. It will be held from April 17 to April 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":164085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101013330,101011267,101013052,1039],"class_list":["post-164092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-lorenzo-musetti","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rolex-monte-carlo-masters-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164092","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=164092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164125,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164092\/revisions\/164125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}