{"id":62275,"date":"2014-10-04T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T06:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=62275"},"modified":"2014-10-05T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T11:36:08","slug":"nole-powers-into-his-fifth-beijing-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-powers-into-his-fifth-beijing-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole to face Berdych in his fifth Beijing final!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic reached his fifth final in Beijing after outlasting no.6 seed Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday at the China Open<\/a>, an ATP World Tour 500 tennis tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novak got the only break of the first set after a nine minute game and served it out for 6-3.<\/p>\n

The Serb took an early 2-0 lead in the second set, but Murray fought back for 3-all. Nole broke once again in the ninth game and sealed the win to the delight of his Chinese fans at the Olympic Green Tennis Center, improving to a 14-8 record in H2H meetings with Andy.<\/p>\n

“It was a two-set victory today, but still it felt like I had to work hard to win the points,”<\/strong> said Djokovic. “I’m glad that I’m back in the form that I would like to be in, especially in these courts where I still haven’t lost ever since I played this tournament. Hopefully I can finish the year in style, similar as I finished last year.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (4-4), double faults (0-2), winners (19-7), unforced errors (21-22), total points won (70-50).<\/p>\n

Novak improved to a 23-0 mark at the China Open, reaching his sixth final of the season.<\/p>\n

The world no.1 will look to win his fifth Beijing crown on Sunday, when he faces Tomas Berdych (CZE, 3) who def. qualifier from Slovakia, Martin Klizan – 6-4, 6-1.
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He lifted the trophy in 2009 (d. Cilic), 2010 (d. Ferrer), 2012 (d.Tsonga) and 2013 (d. Nadal).<\/p>\n

It will be the 68th tour-level final for the Belgrade native (45-22 record). The title match is scheduled at 19.30 local time (13.30 CET).<\/p>\n

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

Novak beat no.6 seed Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4 in one hour and 36 minutes to reach his fifth final at the China Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":62269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101011519,101012470,133,101010433],"class_list":["post-62275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-beijing-2014-en","tag-china-open-2014-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-semifinal-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62275","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=62275"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62310,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62275\/revisions\/62310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}