{"id":167755,"date":"2024-07-31T14:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167755"},"modified":"2024-07-31T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:15:59","slug":"paris-olympics-novak-qualifies-for-quarter-finals-next-is-tsitsipas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/paris-olympics-novak-qualifies-for-quarter-finals-next-is-tsitsipas\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics: Novak qualifies for quarter-finals, next is Tsitsipas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole continues chase for first gold medal at <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/paris-2024\/results\/tennis\/men-s-singles\/8fnl000100--\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.2 Novak Djokovic continued his pursuit of a first Olympic gold medal on Wednesday at the Paris Olympics, where he moved past Germany\u2019s Dominik Koepfer 7-5, 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star advanced after one hour and 37 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic had a break advantage in the first set, but the German broke back immediately to level. However, Novak raised the level again in the closing stages of the set to grab a lead. The 37-year-old Belgrade native then won 95 per cent (19\/20) of his first-serve points in the second set to reach the last eight in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It is a great honour to represent my country at the Olympics. It is an incredible sporting event,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. &#8220;<strong>We play Roland Garros every year in this stadium but the crowd, the atmosphere, the colours, everything is different now, in a good way. People from all over the world come to support their athletes and it is beautiful to see. We are all celebrating sport and I am glad to still stay in the tournament.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (5-7), double faults (0-2), winners (23-23), unforced errors (15-23), total points won (66-49).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next play eighth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, after the Greek defeated Argentine Sebastian Baez in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole\u2019s desktop calendar for August 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Calendar_August2024.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak continued his pursuit of a first Olympic gold medal on Wednesday at the Paris Olympics, where he moved past Germany\u2019s Dominik Koepfer 7-5, 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012251,101010574,101013409,101012260,1039],"class_list":["post-167755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-france-en","tag-olympic-games-en","tag-paris-2024-olympics-en","tag-paris-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167755","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=167755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167759,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167755\/revisions\/167759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}