{"id":168133,"date":"2024-10-08T14:07:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T12:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=168133"},"modified":"2024-10-08T22:16:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T20:16:16","slug":"novak-advances-to-fourth-round-in-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-advances-to-fourth-round-in-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak advances to fourth round in Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In his quest for a 100th tour-level title, Novak Djokovic defeated Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday to advance to the fourth round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.rolexshanghaimasters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Shanghai Masters<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak broke twice in each set. The four-time champion claimed a dominant win over the Italian in just 63 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cFrom the beginning I had a clear game plan of what I needed to do, staying aggressive and trying to use every short ball to take the initiative in the point,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic, who improved to 34-8 on the season. <strong>\u201cCobolli was evidently exhausted after last night\u2019s match. I haven\u2019t played too many matches, I think the positive in that is that I\u2019m fresh, so I am happy to play every day for as long as it takes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (3-2), double faults (2-1), winners (20-6), unforced errors (14-20), total points won (62-33).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will face Roman Safiullin in the fourth round (2-0 H2H record).<\/strong> The Russian eliminated 13th seed Frances Tiafoe (USA) in three tight sets (5-7, 7-5, 7-6).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his quest for a 100th tour-level title, Novak defeated no.28 seed Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 6-2 to advance to the fourth round of the Rolex Shanghai Masters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":168130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012131,101011267,101013094,101011765,1039],"class_list":["post-168133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-china","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rolex-shanghai-masters-en","tag-shanghai","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168133","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=168133"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168143,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168133\/revisions\/168143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}