{"id":165150,"date":"2023-06-06T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=165150"},"modified":"2023-06-06T22:45:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:45:27","slug":"rg-novak-beats-khachanov-to-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rg-novak-beats-khachanov-to-reach-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"RG: Novak beats Khachanov to reach semi-finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole overcame a quarter-final Khachanov challenge to keep his bid for a record 23rd Grand Slam title alive at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third seed Novak Djokovic rallied from a set down to beat no.11 seed, Russian Karen Khachanov, 4-6, 7-6 (0), 6-2, 6-4 and reach his 45th major semi-final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two-time former champion did not earn a break point in the opening two sets, but he raised his level and played a perfect second-set tie-break (7-0) on Court Philippe-Chatrier.<\/p>\n<p>Novak broke his rival&#8217;s serve twice in both the third and fourth sets, and suffered one break, having saved six of the seven he faced, during the three-hour, 38-minute contest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI think he was the better player for most of the first two sets,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>\u201cI was struggling to find my rhythm. I made a lot of unforced errors and came into the match quite slow, sluggish. But I played the perfect second-set tie-break, and from that moment I played a couple of levels higher than I did at the beginning. There was a bit of a scare towards the end of the fourth set, but I managed to win eight points in a row to finish it off. It was a big fight. It\u2019s something that you expect in the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam. You\u2019re not going to have your victories handed over to you. You\u2019ve got to earn them, so I\u2019m just glad to overcome the big challenge of today.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (11-7), double faults (5-4), winners (57-38), unforced errors (42-44), total points won (135-114).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a place in the Roland Garros final, Novak will play top seed Carlos Alcaraz (ESP, H2H 0-1) who beat no.5 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 6-2, 6-1, 7-6.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djokovic rallied from a set down to beat Karen Khachanov 4-6, 7-6 (0), 6-2, 6-4 and reach his 45th major semi-final. The two-time former champion will next play top seed Carlos Alcaraz (ESP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":165148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011211,101010469,101010827,101010550,101013338],"class_list":["post-165150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-parisen","tag-quarterfinals-en","tag-roland-garros-2023-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165150","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=165150"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165165,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165150\/revisions\/165165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}