{"id":168152,"date":"2024-10-09T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T12:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=168152"},"modified":"2024-10-09T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T12:27:42","slug":"nole-eases-into-10th-shanghai-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-eases-into-10th-shanghai-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole eases into 10th Shanghai quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak Djokovic reached the quarter-finals of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.rolexshanghaimasters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Shanghai Masters<\/a> for a 10th time following a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Roman Safiullin on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star saved all three break points he faced during the one hour, 13-minute clash at the Qi Zhong Tennis Center, breaking his rival three times from five opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBoth last night&#8217;s match and tonight have been, maybe, some of the best matches I have played in a while, so I am just enjoying myself on the court,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>\u201cWhen you play well and feel good, there is obviously a lot of joy in striking a tennis ball on the court. These sensations I have on the tennis court are some of the reasons why I keep on playing and keep on competing because I really believe that I can play at a very high level. Now, it\u2019s a matter of keeping that consistency and also having a good time off the court.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-2), double faults (1-2), winners (17-10), unforced errors (16-21), total points won (58-36).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic, the four-time champion, will play against 19-year-old Czech, the ATP NextGen Jakub Mensik, for spot in last four of the Masters 1000 event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak reached the quarter-finals of the Rolex Shanghai Masters for a 10th time following a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Roman Safiullin on Wednesday. The four-time champion will play against 19-year-old Czech, the ATP NextGen Jakub Mensik, for spot in last four of the Masters 1000 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":168147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012131,93,101011267,101013094,101011765],"class_list":["post-168152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-china","tag-fourth-round","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rolex-shanghai-masters-en","tag-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168152","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=168152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168153,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168152\/revisions\/168153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}