{"id":167052,"date":"2024-04-11T17:16:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167052"},"modified":"2024-04-11T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T16:18:07","slug":"novak-advances-to-the-monte-carlo-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-advances-to-the-monte-carlo-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak advances to Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole will play in his 10th quarter-final at the <a href=\"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic defeated Lorenzo Musetti 7-5, 6-3 in the third round, avenging his loss to the Italian in the same stage of the competition 12 months ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s top-ranked tennis player was not at his best on Thursday, but he did enough to triumph. Musetti led by a break in the first set. However, the Serbian ace found his rhythm and consistency in crucial moments to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Novak gained the decisive break in the 12th game of the first set before he played with greater intensity in the second to advance after one hour and 59 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I am still at my top level but it was a great test today against a great player, a very talented player,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;I lost to him last year here, similar circumstances. I was a set and 4-2 up and I must say it was in the back of my mind when I was serving at 4-2, 40\/15 and lost my serve today. I thought, &#8216;Oh no, hopefully this is not similar scenario like last year&#8217;. I am really glad to overcome the challenge and look forward to the next one.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (3-1), double faults (2-1), winners (18-18), unforced errors (23-26), total points won (72-57).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next meet 11th seed Alex de Minaur (H2H 1-1) after the Australian beat his countryman Alexei Popyrin 6-3, 6-4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is a two-time titlist at the ATP Masters 1000 event (2013, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>The 98-time tour-level champion is still searching for his first trophy of the season.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole will play in his 10th career quarter-final at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters on Friday. The top seed defeated Lorenzo Musetti 7-5, 6-3, avenging his loss to the Italian in the same stage of the competition 12 months ago. Next opponent for Djokovic is Alex de Minaur (AUS, 11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":167045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011267,101012329,101013052,1039],"class_list":["post-167052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-monte-carlo-en","tag-rolex-monte-carlo-masters-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167052","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167052"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167079,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167052\/revisions\/167079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}