{"id":33739,"date":"2012-08-17T20:32:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T18:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=33739"},"modified":"2012-08-18T00:31:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T22:31:47","slug":"nole-to-meet-del-potro-in-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-to-meet-del-potro-in-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole to meet Del Potro in semis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Second-seeded Novak charged into the Western & Southern Open<\/a> semi-finals on Friday with a convincing 6-3, 6-2 victory over Marin Cilic and moved within one win of back-to-back ATP World Tour Masters 1000 finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No.12 seed Cilic slipped to a 0-7 record against Nole, who hasn’t dropped a set en route to the last four.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old broke serve three times and saved all four break points he faced for victory in 81 minutes, improving to a 53-9 match record on the season (28-2 on hard).<\/p>\n

“It was my best match so far here in this tournament,”<\/strong> said Novak. “Came in the right moment, really. I had the biggest challenge today with Cilic who has been playing well the last couple of months. Played a really good match.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (7-2), double faults (2-0), winners (23-5), unforced errors (17-21), total points won (66-42).<\/p>\n

Novak goes onto face no.6 seed Juan Martin del Potro in attempt to reach his fourth Cincinnati Masters finals.<\/strong> The Argentine defeated Frenchman Jeremy Chardy in straight sets 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n

Djokovic and Del Potro have met six times, Nole leads 4-2. The Tandil native won their last encounter, a bronze medal match at the 2012 Olympics, 7-5, 6-4.<\/p>\n

Their semi-final clash is scheduled on Saturday at 1:00 pm local time (7:00 pm CET).<\/p>\n

Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Second-seeded Novak charged into the Western & Southern Open semi-finals with a convincing 6-3, 6-2 victory over Marin Cilic and moved within one win of back-to-back ATP World Tour Masters 1000 finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":33734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012288,101010550],"class_list":["post-33739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-cincinnati-2012-en","tag-quarterfinals-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33739","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=33739"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33749,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33739\/revisions\/33749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}