{"id":169447,"date":"2025-07-09T21:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=169447"},"modified":"2025-07-09T22:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:06:46","slug":"novak-battles-past-cobolli-advances-into-wimbledon-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-battles-past-cobolli-advances-into-wimbledon-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak battles past Cobolli, advances into Wimbledon semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One step closer to eighth Wimbledon title \u2013 Novak is through to another semi-final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak Djokovic is through to the semi-finals at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> after beating 22nd seed Flavio Cobolli in four sets, 6-7 (6), 6-2, 7-5, 6-4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted three hours and 11 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Novak had chances to break Cobolli\u2019s serve early in the match but missed them. He eventually broke in the eighth game, but the young Italian broke right back, without losing a single point. The Serbian star had a set point at 5-4, but Cobolli played bravely and pushed the set to a tie-break. It was a close contest, Novak came back from 2-5 down and saved one set point, but Cobolli hit a strong serve to take the first set.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic quickly responded, needing just 25 minutes to win the second set and level the match. He raised his game in the third and fourth sets, playing at a very high level and finishing the match strong to reach his 52nd Grand Slam semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (13-13), double faults (2-4), winners (39-51), unforced errors (22-44), total points won (142-116).<\/p>\n<p><strong>With this win, Novak is into his 14th Wimbledon semis, where he\u2019ll face world no.1 Jannik Sinner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carlos Alcaraz (Spain, 3) and Taylor Fritz (USA, 5) complete semi-final line-up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak is through to the semi-finals at Wimbledon after beating 22nd seed Flavio Cobolli in four sets, 6-7 (6), 6-2, 7-5, 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":169439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012193,101011403,101013481],"class_list":["post-169447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-wimbledon-2025-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169447","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=169447"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169457,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169447\/revisions\/169457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}