{"id":36226,"date":"2012-10-13T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T10:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=36226"},"modified":"2012-10-13T16:41:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T14:41:41","slug":"nole-earns-spot-in-first-shanghai-masters-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-earns-spot-in-first-shanghai-masters-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole, Murray to battle for Shanghai title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brilliant Novak advanced to his 52nd ATP World Tour final and first at the Shanghai Rolex Masters<\/a><\/strong>, after he defeated world no.7 Czech Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nole needed 86 minutes to see off Berdych, and now leads their head-to-head 10-1.<\/p>\n

The world no.2 stormed to a 5-1 lead in the opening set breaking Tomas twice. He was broken back once serving for the set, and had to save a break point in the ninth game before sealing it 6-3 in 42 minutes.<\/p>\n

Djokovic, who won the China Open last week, made a break in the third game of the second set and consolidated it with a love service hold for 3-1. The Serbian star kept the advantage till the end and served out the set and match 6-4.<\/p>\n

“It’s a big challenge when you play a Top 10 player,”<\/strong> said Novak. “Tomas is in great form the past couple of months. He’s always a difficult player to play against on any surface because he has a very powerful serve and great forehand. I played tactically right. I was putting a lot of returns into the court, putting a lot of pressure on his serve. On the other hand, I was serving well when I needed to.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (5-4), double faults (3-1), winners (25-15), unforced errors (19-24), total points won (68-49).<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Belgrade native improved to 69-11 on the season by reaching his tenth final of the year.<\/p>\n

An impressive performance from Novak, who will look to clinch his 13th Masters trophy on Sunday when he faces no.3 seed Andy Murray of Great Britain. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The two-time defending champion beat the top-ranked Swiss Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4.
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Match at\u00a0Qi Zhong Stadium\u00a0is scheduled at 16.30 local time (10.30 CET).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Djokovic leads Murray 8-7 in their career head-to-head. Andy won the most recent encounter, the 2012 US Open final.<\/p>\n

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

Second-seeded Djokovic reached his first Shanghai Rolex Masters final with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Czech Tomas Berdych in 86 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":36225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101010433,101010743],"class_list":["post-36226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-semifinal-en","tag-shanghai-rolex-masters-2012en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36226","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=36226"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36233,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36226\/revisions\/36233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}