{"id":168438,"date":"2025-01-02T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T10:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=168438"},"modified":"2025-01-02T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T10:30:39","slug":"novakovih-20-0-protiv-monfisa-za-cetvrtfinale-brizbejna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novakovih-20-0-protiv-monfisa-za-cetvrtfinale-brizbejna\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak reaches Brisbane quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic and Gael Monfils were meeting for the 20th time on Thursday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbaneinternational.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brisbane International presented by Evie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The top seed from Serbia made it 20-0 in the pair\u2019s ATP H2H series with a 6-3, 6-3 second round victory at the ATP 250 event in Queensland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>En-route to the quarter-finals, Novak converted all three break points he earned during the 72-minute clash, and saved the only break point he faced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been playing for many years. I&#8217;ve known Gael since I was 15. We played quite a bit at juniors and on Tour and I have a good score against him, but we had some incredible battles,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;He is one of the best, if not the best, athlete in our sport over the years. Incredible flexibility, agility and speed. He is such a great player to watch and a great character and attracts fans around the world to stadiums so tons of respect to him and hopefully we can play some more before we both retire.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (5-4), double faults (1-4), winners (10-17), unforced errors (16-30), total points won (59-41).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a place in the last four, Novak will play against Reilly Opelka (USA, ATP no.293) on Friday. It will be their first career encounter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole\u2019s desktop calendar for January 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Calendar_January2025.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak and Gael Monfils met for the 20th time on Thursday, when the top seed from Serbia made it 20-0 in the pair\u2019s ATP H2H series with a 6-3, 6-3 second round victory at the ATP 250 event in Queensland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":168426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012178,101011992,101013448,101013450],"class_list":["post-168438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-australia","tag-brisbane","tag-season-opener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168438","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=168438"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168450,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168438\/revisions\/168450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}