{"id":36181,"date":"2012-10-12T14:08:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T12:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=36181"},"modified":"2012-10-12T17:25:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:25:47","slug":"novak-sets-berdych-semi-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-sets-berdych-semi-final-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak sets Berdych semi-final clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-36177\" title=\"Tre\u0107e polufinale \u0160angaja za Noleta!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Shanghai04_getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Shanghai04_getty.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Shanghai04_getty-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Shanghai04_getty-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Shanghai04_getty-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Shanghai04_getty-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nole is through to his third semi-final in Shanghai!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The second-seeded Serb continued his run of form on Friday as he beat world no.21 German Tommy Haas 6-3, 6-3 in one hour and 22 minutes to reach the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shanghairolexmasters.com\/\">2012 Shanghai Rolex Masters<\/a> last four.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak converted his third break point chance in the sixth game and won the first set 6-3 in 42 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Haas made a break in the second game of the second set, but Djokovic fought back immediately and leveled at 2-all. He broke the German twice more for 5-2 lead. Nole lost his concentration serving for the match. He failed to capitalise on two match points and suffered a break for 5-3. However, he was quickly 40-0 up on Berdych\u2019s serve with three more opportunities to seal the victory. The Serb used his fifth match point and advanced to his 14th semi-final in 2012.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\nMatch statistics<\/span>: aces (4-2), double faults (2-1), winners (20-15), unforced errors (20-27).<\/p>\n<p>Novak clinched his 68th match win of the season, and now has a 68-11 record (43-4 on hard).<\/p>\n<p><strong>He will face no.4 seed Tomas Berdych on Saturday at 16.30 local time (10.30 CET). <\/strong>The Czech defeated Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 7-6(4).<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic leads their H2H 9-1. The 25-year-old Belgrade native won their last seven encounters, the most recent in Monte Carlo Masters semi-final 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s always a big challenge when you&#8217;re playing a top 10 player, especially somebody who is an established one,\u201d<\/strong> said Novak. <strong>\u201cTomas has been winning against top players on different surfaces in the last couple of years, so he knows how to play on a big stage and he knows how to play in big moments. It&#8217;s going to be tough. But I&#8217;ve been playing well, too. So I&#8217;ll try to look for my chances tomorrow from the baseline and see how it goes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eM9iKIsNVlY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole continued his run of form on Friday as he beat world no.21 German Tommy Haas 6-3, 6-3 in one hour and 22 minutes to reach the 2012 Shanghai Rolex Masters last four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":36177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101010550,101010743],"class_list":["post-36181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-quarterfinals-en","tag-shanghai-rolex-masters-2012en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36181","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=36181"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36212,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36181\/revisions\/36212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}