Barclays ATP World Tour Finals<\/a> on Thursday evening when he defeated fourth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe match lasted one hour and 54 minutes.<\/p>\n
Novak, the 2008 and 2012 champion at the season finale, improved to a 2-0 record in Group B.\u00a0The win extended his Head2Head record against the Argentine to 11-3.<\/p>\n
Nole broke Del Potro in the sixth game and took the opening set 6-3 in 40 minutes.\u00a0The second and third sets were also decided with a break in the sixth game. The 26-year-old Serb put in a solid performance to record victory and extend his winning run to 19 matches.<\/p>\n
“I had opportunities in that game at 3-2, and used it,” <\/strong>said Novak. “I just tried to make him play. I served very well towards the end of the match. He has one of the biggest serves in the sport. He has one of the most aggressive forehands. I just needed to stay tough. I did qualify for the semi-finals, which is definitely positive news, but I still want to try to win the last match of the group.”
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\nThe Belgrade native landed 78% of his first service point and was 15\/18 on net approaches.<\/p>\nMatch statistics<\/span>: aces (10-7), double faults (1-0), winners (34-24), unforced errors (31-29), total points won (84-69).<\/p>\nDjokovic now has a 69-9 record on the season, which includes six titles in eight finals.<\/p>\n
The Serbian no.1, who will lead his team against the Czech Republic in the Davis Cup final (November 15-17), takes a 9-1 career mark to his third round-robin match on Saturday when he faces no.8 seed Richard Gasquet (21.00 CET).<\/strong><\/p>\nRoger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro will play eachother for the second semi-final place in Group B.<\/p>\n
Novak tops the Group and will face Stanislas Wawrinka on Sunday, who finished second in Group A, behind top-seeded Rafael Nadal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champion beat Juan Martin del Potro 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 and improved to a 2-0 record in Group B. He will meet Stanislas Wawrinka in Sunday semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":52955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011310,101010566,101012277,133,101012193,101010852],"class_list":["post-52957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1500-en","tag-atp-finals-en","tag-barclays-atp-world-tour-finals-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-london-en","tag-round-robinen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52957","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=52957"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52997,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52957\/revisions\/52997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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