{"id":31862,"date":"2012-07-02T20:58:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T19:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=31862"},"modified":"2012-07-03T16:43:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:43:22","slug":"nole-storms-to-wimbledon-qfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-storms-to-wimbledon-qfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole storms to Wimbledon QFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31857\" title=\"Pao u Viktor, Nole u \u010detvrtfinalu\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Wimbledon_10_ap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Wimbledon_10_ap.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Wimbledon_10_ap-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Wimbledon_10_ap-267x205.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Wimbledon_10_ap-407x312.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed and 2011 Wimbledon titlist Novak Djokovic booked a place in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/en_GB\/index.html\">The Championships<\/a> quarter-finals on Monday, when he beat his friend and fellow countryman Viktor Troicki 6-3, 6-1, 6-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak improved to 12-1 lifetime against Troicki in their fourth round encounter on Centre Court that lasted 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It was his 40th match win of the season (40-6), which includes two titles &#8211; at the Australian Open in Melbourne (d. Nadal) and the Sony Open Tennis in Miami (d. Murray).<\/p>\n<p>Novak&#8217;s first break of serve came in the fourth game of the match. Although he immediately surrendered his own serve, he was straight back on top, taking Troicki&#8217;s serve in the sixth game for 4-2 lead. The defending champion won the opening set 6-3 in 28 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic raced through the second set in just 24 minutes. He made a triple break for convincing 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>A break in the sixth game of the third set was enough for Nole to seal the set and match<br \/>\n6-3.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (4-2), double faults (2-2), winners (31-15), unforced errors (11-15), total points won (89-54).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAt the start, I needed some time to get the rhythm and to kind of figure out where he&#8217;s going to serve because he has a big first serve,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Novak said. <strong>\u201cBut I returned really well. I served great. The baseline game, I was patient and waiting for a chance to be aggressive. Everything was quite compact, and I&#8217;m satisfied.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole and Viktor will be teaming up together to compete for Serbia in the doubles event at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/\">London Olympics<\/a>\u00a0later this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 25-year-old Serb will play against no.31 seed Florian Mayer on Wednesday for a place in the last 4. \u00a0The German defeated\u00a018th-seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-1,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>3-6, 6-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic and Mayer met in quarter-finals of\u00a0Dubai 2011, Novak won 7-5, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1dkp4WQxCLY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak booked a spot in The Championships quarter-finals on Monday, when he beat his friend Viktor Troicki 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 for the 40th match win of the season (40-6). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":31857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31862","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\/31862","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=31862"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31870,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31862\/revisions\/31870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}