{"id":165053,"date":"2023-05-17T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=165053"},"modified":"2023-05-17T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:49:03","slug":"rune-downs-novak-in-rome-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rune-downs-novak-in-rome-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rune downs Novak in Rome quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In rainy Rome Wednesday, Holger Rune overcame defending champion Novak Djokovic in a three set quarter-final action at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 20-year-old Dane prevailed 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 to seal his second straight ATP Masters 1000 win against the world no.1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak was broken twice in the opening set, which he lost after 28 minutes. The weather forced play to be suspended at 2-6, 5-4, 30\/0 with Rune serving to stay in the second set. The six-time titlist clinched it immediately after the play resumed.<\/p>\n<p>However, the seventh seed recomposed himself to produce a high-class third set, and broke Novak&#8217;s serve twice more to book semi-final spot in\u00a0two hours and 19 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis is probably the coldest and wettest tournament I\u2019ve ever played here in Rome,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>\u201cIn these kind of conditions, it\u2019s very difficult to get the ball past him. He\u2019s very, very fast, very quick. Great anticipation. Just a very talented, dynamic player, all-around player. He was just better. He played too good for me for most part of the match. He kept his nerves and deserved to win.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-3), double faults (3-2), winners (22-26), unforced errors (35-15), total points won (70-85).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next stop for Novak is Paris. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 French Open<\/a> will be held from May 28 to June 11. <\/strong>Djokovic has won Coupe des Mousquetaires twice (2016 and 2021). Last year he fell to Rafael Nadal in the Roland Garros quarter-final (2-6, 6-4, 2-6, 6-7).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI know I can always play better,\u201d<\/strong> Nole added. <strong>\u201cI always like my chances in Grand Slams against anybody on any surface, best-of-five. Let\u2019s see how it goes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In rainy Rome Wednesday, Holger Rune overcame defending champion in a three set quarter-final action at the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia. The 20-year-old seventh seed from Denmark prevailed 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 to seal his second ATP Masters 1000 win over Novak and second career victory against the world no.1 in their three meetings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":165050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101013292,101013337,101011267,101011403,101012240],"class_list":["post-165053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-holger-rune-en","tag-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-2023-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-rome-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165053","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=165053"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165067,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165053\/revisions\/165067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}