{"id":52067,"date":"2013-10-11T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T12:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=52067"},"modified":"2013-10-11T21:12:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:12:34","slug":"shanghai-nole-rallies-past-monfils-to-reach-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/shanghai-nole-rallies-past-monfils-to-reach-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai: Nole rallies past Monfils to reach semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"

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World no.2 Novak Djokovic moved into the last four at the Shanghai Rolex Masters<\/a> tennis event on Friday.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Serb rallied to beat Gael Monfils 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-4 in two hours and 22 minutes, improving his perfect Head2Head record against the Frenchman to 9-0.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Players twice exchanged breaks in the opening set, before the Paris native clinched the tie-breaker 7-4.<\/p>\n

The defending champion quickly regrouped and clinched the second set 6-2.<\/p>\n

In the decider, Nole converted a crucial break in the seventh game and secured his 60th win of the season three games later.<\/p>\n

“I started serving quite badly, but I did not commit many unforced errors,”<\/strong> said Djokovic. “I was serving better as the match went on. Today was a very physical match and very intense. We played many rallies. I’m glad that I made it through.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novak won 79 per cent of his first service points and broke Monfils five times from eight opportunities, dropping serve twice during the quarter-final encounter.<\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (4-9), double faults (1-3), winners (31-25), unforced errors (34-34), total points won (102-87).<\/p>\n

Saturday’s semi-finals in Shanghai will pit the reigning Australian Open champion Djokovic against seventh-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (10.30 CET), and Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 6) against Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2).
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Novak has won the last six meetings with Tsonga (10-5 H2H record), the most recent in quarter-finals of the 2013 BNP Paribas Open in\u00a0Indian Wells (6-3, 6-1).<\/p>\n

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

Defending champion came back from a set down to beat Gael Monfils 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-4 and progress to Masters 1000 event last four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":52064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012345,133,101010550,101012348,101011297],"class_list":["post-52067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-china-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-quarterfinals-en","tag-shanghai-en","tag-shanghai-rolex-masters-2013-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52067","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=52067"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52104,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52067\/revisions\/52104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}