{"id":50692,"date":"2013-09-06T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=50692"},"modified":"2013-09-06T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:47:10","slug":"novak-charges-into-his-14th-straight-gs-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-charges-into-his-14th-straight-gs-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak charges into his 14th straight Grand Slam semi-final!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

Nole is through to his seventh straight US Open<\/a> semis and 14th consecutive Grand Slam semi-final overall!<\/p>\n

Serbia\u2019s top seed reached the last four of the final Major event of the season after beating 21st-seeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 in two hours and 34 minutes on the Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After taking a two sets to love lead, Novak dropped his first set of the tournament but stormed back to win the fourth set 6-0 in 29 minutes.<\/p>\n

“Every Grand Slam offers something very special, the atmosphere here in the night sessions is electric and I enjoyed it all through this evening,”\u00a0<\/strong>the world no.1 said. “Mikhail is a great competitor and a fighter who has a tricky game. I think I played really well apart from that third set\u00a0when, for some reason, I allowed him to come back into the match, started to push the ball, was being more passive allowing him to step into the court, come to the net.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Djokovic converted seven of his 12 break point opportunities, while Youzhny capitalised on two of his 10 chances.<\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (5-2), double faults (1-4), winners (32-15), unforced errors (45-31), total points won (115-87).<\/p>\n

Novak’s next opponent is no.9 seed Stanislas Wawrinka, who shocked defending champion Andy Murray in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 earlier in the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2011 titlist holds a 12-2 (7-1 on hard)\u00a0ATP Head2Head advantage over the Swiss no.2.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the next challenge, Djokovic said: “It is going to be a very close match against Stan. I don’t think there is a clear favourite, but I feel quite confident on the court and hopefully I can continue in the same way. I\u2019ll come out and play my best.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The other men’s semi-final in the bottom half of the draw will see Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2) take on Richard Gasquet (FRA, 8).<\/p>\n

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

The 2011 champion set up a semi-final match with Stanislas Wawrinka with a 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 victory over Russian Mikhail Youzhny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":50684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101011290,101012298,101010550,101012453],"class_list":["post-50692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-mikhail-youzhny-en","tag-new-york-en","tag-quarterfinals-en","tag-us-open-2013-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50692","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=50692"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50761,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50692\/revisions\/50761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}