{"id":46162,"date":"2013-05-16T12:58:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T11:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=46162"},"modified":"2013-05-16T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T12:34:07","slug":"novak-cruises-into-rome-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-cruises-into-rome-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole cruises into Rome quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

Two-time former champion Novak Djokovic recorded a comfortable 6-1, 6-4\u00a0<\/strong>win on Thursday over world no.23 Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine to reach the quarter-finals of the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a>, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 clay-court tournament in Rome.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The top-seeded Serb saved all three break points he faced, and broke three times from six opportunities in a rain-delayed 60-minute third round clash at the Centrale.<\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (5-4), double faults (2-2), winners (13-18), unforced errors (9-26), total points won (60-42).<\/p>\n

For a place in the semi-finals, Nole will face no.6 seed Tomas Berdych who eliminated Kevin Anderson of South Africa 7-5, 6-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Djokovic takes a 13-1 career record against the Czech into their Friday meeting.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Belgrade native, who improved to a 28-3 season record and 24-4 mark at the Foro Italico, is looking to clinch his third Rome title (2008, 2011).<\/p>\n

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

Novak beat world no.23 Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine 6-1, 6-4 to reach the last 8 at the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":46159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012444,101011200,1039],"class_list":["post-46162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-en","tag-rome-2013-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46162","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=46162"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46167,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46162\/revisions\/46167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}