{"id":27615,"date":"2012-04-20T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=27615"},"modified":"2012-04-21T19:39:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:39:31","slug":"nole-sets-up-berdych-semi-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-sets-up-berdych-semi-final-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole sets up Berdych semi-final clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Novak_MonteCarlo2012_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27605\" title=\"Sjajni Nole u polufinalu Monte Karla!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Novak_MonteCarlo2012_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Novak_MonteCarlo2012_03.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Novak_MonteCarlo2012_03-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Novak_MonteCarlo2012_03-267x168.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak defeated world no.55 Robin Haase 6-4, 6-2 in 1 hour and 16 minutes on Friday to advance into the semi-finals of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monte-carlorolexmasters.com\/\">Monte Carlo Rolex Masters<\/a> for the fourth time in his career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were eleven breaks of serve during the match, Nole converted 7 of his 12 break point opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Point of the match was won by the 2009 runner-up at the start of the second set as he recovered from a seemingly impossible position to get to the lob and pass Haase on the turn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-7nEJZ7b8i0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (1-0), double faults (0-0), winners (19-10), unforced errors (26-28), total points won (67-49).<\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 is making his sixth appearance at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 clay-court tournament. He improved to a 14-5 event record.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic will play against 6th-seeded Tomas Berdych for a place in the final. The Czech dismissed no.3 seed Andy Murray in three sets 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Serbian star has met Berdych nine times and takes an 8-1 record into their Saturday encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Nole\u2019s only loss came in 2010 Wimbledon semi-final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Tomas is a threat for anybody on any surface,&#8221;<\/strong> the top seed said looking ahead to Saturday&#8217;s semi. <strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s a big challenge for me to see if I&#8217;m able to keep the focus throughout the whole match because this is the only way I can actually get a win against Tomas.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djokovic defeated world no.55 Robin Haase 6-4, 6-2 to advance into the semi-finals of Monte Carlo Rolex Masters for the fourth time in his career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":27605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012222],"class_list":["post-27615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-monte-carlo-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27615","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=27615"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27857,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27615\/revisions\/27857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}