London Olympics<\/a> bronze medal match on Sunday after he lost to the British third seed 5-7, 5-7 in 2 hours on Centre Court, at the All England Club, Wimbledon.<\/strong><\/p>\nBoth Novak and Andy got off to strong starts and played high quality tennis. There were no breaks until the 12th game when Murray capitalised on his first set point for 7-5.<\/p>\n
Nole had break point opportunities in the first, third, ninth and 11th games of the second set, but Andy saved all of them and broke again in the 12th game to end Great Britain\u2019s 100-year wait for an Olympic men\u2019s singles tennis medal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a lot of break balls in the second set,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said. \u201cPractically every service game, I had chance in the second set to make a break, especially the one at 5-all. It’s a disappointing loss. But he deserves to be in the final. He played better in the important moments. He served extremely well and used that element in his game efficiently when he needed to. The crowd gave him a support and positive energy. He managed to use that in his favour and win the match.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nMatch statistics<\/span>: aces (3-5), double faults (1-0), winners (25-25), unforced errors (13-16), total points won (71-81).<\/p>\nDjokovic will look to repeat the result from Beijing 2008 when he won a bronze medal for Serbia beating American James Blake.<\/p>\n
The world no.2 will play eighth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina.<\/strong><\/p>\nTop seed Roger Federer beat the 23-year-old Tandil native 3-6, 7-6 (5), 19-17\u00a0in epic encounter that lasted 4 hours and 26 minutes.<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to Sunday’s bronze medal match Novak said:\u00a0“I will try to \u00a0compose myself, try to gather all the positive energy, as much as I can.\u00a0<\/strong>The motivation is always there. I will try to repeat the success that I had four years ago.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nPhoto: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nole will contest the London Olympics bronze medal match on Sunday after he lost to British third seed Andy Murray in semi-final 5-7, 5-7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":33055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012193,101010574,101010433],"class_list":["post-33057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-london-en","tag-olympic-games-en","tag-semifinal-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33057","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=33057"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33072,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33057\/revisions\/33072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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