Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships<\/a> to reach the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour 500 hard court event.<\/strong><\/p>\nNole\u00a0saved a break point in his first service game, but was otherwise largely untroubled in dispatching the Italian.\u00a0The Serbian top seed broke his rival three times to take the 25-minute opener 6-0.<\/p>\n
A break in the fourth game of the second set was enough for the three-time former titlist to clinch a convincing straight sets victory, his 10th straight win over Seppi.<\/p>\n
“Beginning of the second set was crucial. I saved some 15-30 game on my serve and managed to break him in the right moment,”<\/strong> said Novak. “It was overall a great performance from my side. He made a lot of unforced errors which helped me today.”<\/strong><\/p>\nDjokovic won 89 per cent of his first service points and capitalised on four of his eight break point opportunities\u00a0to record his 11th match win of the season.<\/p>\n
Match statistics<\/span>: aces (6-1), double faults (4-2), total points won (62-38).<\/p>\nThe six-time Grand Slam champion, who will next meet Juan Martin Del Potro on Friday (about 17.00 local time \/ 14.00 CET), is looking to capture his 36th career title.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe fourth-seeded Argentine beat Daniel Brands 6-4, 6-2 in the quarter-finals earlier today.<\/p>\n
Novak leads 7-2 against\u00a0Del Potro in all-time H2H record. The 25-year-old Belgrade native won their last encounter in the semi-finals of the 2012 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n
“Delpo is a very talented player, very powerful from both sides from baseline, great serve. Very tall, but moves around pretty well. He won a Grand Slam, he won many titles, he’s an established top 10 player…we know everything about each other, it’s gonna be a tough one, I need to be on top of my game,”\u00a0<\/strong>Djokovic said of his next opponent.<\/p>\nPhoto: Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nole defeated no.7 seed Italian Andreas Seppi 6-0, 6-3 in 65 minutes to advance into Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships last four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":42804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101011125,101012428,101010550],"class_list":["post-42818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-dubai-2013-en","tag-dubai-duty-free-tennis-championships","tag-quarterfinals-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818","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=42818"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42824,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818\/revisions\/42824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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