{"id":167630,"date":"2024-07-08T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167630"},"modified":"2024-07-08T22:50:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:50:47","slug":"novak-downs-rune-in-straight-sets-to-reach-wimbledon-qfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-downs-rune-in-straight-sets-to-reach-wimbledon-qfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak downs Rune in straight sets to reach Wimbledon QFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Second seed Novak Djokovic reached the last eight at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> for the 15th time on Monday, following a dominant 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Holger Rune (DEN, 15).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak capitalised on four of his 14 chances, having saved both break points he faced during the two hour, three-minute clash under the roof on the Centre Court.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time former champion dominated on serve throughout the match, winning 75 % of first serves and 72 % of second serves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m very pleased. I don\u2019t think he has played anywhere close to his best to be honest. It was a tough start for him. He lost the first 12 points and I think that got to him mentally,&#8221;<\/strong> said Novak. <strong>&#8220;Waiting all day to come out on the court is never easy. The tension is building up and stressed to get out on the court. On my end I think I\u2018ve done things at the important moments. Things could have looked different if I lost those services games but very solid at the end and I\u2019m very happy to get through in straight sets.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (5-3), double faults (2-4), winners (21-15), unforced errors (22-29), total points won (91-69).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The world no.2 will next face ninth seed Alex de Minaur.<\/strong> The Australian beat NextGen ATP Arthur Fils in four sets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I\u2019m feeling good, I played Alex a few times on different surfaces but this is the first time on grass, He\u2019s one of the fittest guys on the tour. I\u2019ll have to do a lot of running.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second seed reached the last eight at Wimbledon for the 15th time on Monday, following a dominant 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Holger Rune. He will next face ninth seed Alex de Minaur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[93,101010469,101012193,101013406],"class_list":["post-167630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-fourth-round","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-wimbledon-2024-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167630","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=167630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167633,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167630\/revisions\/167633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}