{"id":166629,"date":"2024-01-03T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T11:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=166629"},"modified":"2024-01-03T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T17:04:01","slug":"de-minaur-downs-novak-gives-australia-qf-lead-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/de-minaur-downs-novak-gives-australia-qf-lead-in-perth\/","title":{"rendered":"United Cup: Australia is through to the semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ATP no.12 Alex De Minaur defeated World no.1 Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedcup.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Cup<\/a> in Perth, to give the host nation a 1-0 lead in their quarter-final tie against Serbia at the mixed teams event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>De Minaur delivered a very good all-around performance to clinch the biggest win of his career in 94 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Novak was broken once in each set, suffering his first defeat on Australian soil after six years and 43 consecutive wins.<\/p>\n<p>Ajla Tomljanovic booked Australia\u2019s ticket to the semi-finals in Sydney by beating Natalija Stevanovic 6-1, 6-1 in the WTA singles match next inside RAC Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Novak is heading to Melbourne where he lifted a record-extending 10th Norman Brookes Challenge Cup in 2023, following a 6-3, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5) victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Australian Open<\/a>, Djokovic is bidding to win his 25th Grand Slam trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The first Major event of the season will take place from January 14 to January 28.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex De Minaur defeated the World no.1 6-4, 6-4 to give the host nation a 1-0 lead in their quarter-final tie against Serbia at the mixed teams event. Novak was broken once in each set, suffering his first defeat on Australian soil after six years and 43 consecutive wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":166625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012354,101011403,101012262,101013385],"class_list":["post-166629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australia-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-serbia-en","tag-united-cup-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166629","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=166629"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166646,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166629\/revisions\/166646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}