{"id":29613,"date":"2012-05-19T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T20:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=29613"},"modified":"2012-05-21T12:58:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T11:58:33","slug":"impressive-nole-sets-up-nadal-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/impressive-nole-sets-up-nadal-final-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Nole sets up Nadal final clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29607\" title=\"Auto Draft\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Novak_Rome2012_13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Novak_Rome2012_13.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Novak_Rome2012_13-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Novak_Rome2012_13-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Novak_Rome2012_13-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Novak_Rome2012_13-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nole will play for his 12th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crown on Monday!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed and defending champion outplayed third-seeded Swiss Roger Federer 6-2, 7-6(4) in 1 hour and 39 minutes to advance to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/\">Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a> final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak broke twice, in the third and seventh games, to win the opening set 6-2 in 34 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Serb was dominating the baseline rallies, forcing Federer to make errors.<\/p>\n<p>He made a break in the seventh game of the second set and consolidated it for 5-3 lead.\u00a0 Having squandered the opportunity to win the match serving at 5-4, Nole recovered to get the job done in the tie-break (7-4)\u00a0 for his eleventh victory over Federer in their 25 matches.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (1-6), double faults (1-0), winners (14-22), unforced errors (20-42).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tqV12uqicGY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TsOTnUSQkJ0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 will attempt to win the title at the Foro Italico for the third time when he faces Rafael Nadal in 2011 final repeat (Novak won 6-4, 6-4).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rafa defeated his fellow Spaniard David Ferrer 7-6(6), 6-0 in the first semi-final of the day.<\/p>\n<p>En-route to the final, Nole also dismissed Bernard Tomic, Juan Monaco and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.<\/p>\n<p>The 32nd career encounter between Djokovic and Nadal (H2H record is 14-17) is scheduled on Monday at 12.00 noon CET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak outplayed third-seeded Swiss Roger Federer 6-2, 7-6 (4) to advance to his fourth Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia final. <\/p>\n<p>Final match is scheduled on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29613","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=29613"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29624,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29613\/revisions\/29624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}