The top-seeded Serb defeated John Isner 7-6 (3), 6-2 to advance into his 32nd ATP Masters 1000 title match (21-10) and 74th overall at the tour-level (50-23). <\/strong><\/p>\nThe only break point opportunity for Novak in the opening set was also a set point at 6-5. Isner saved it to force a tie-breaker. Djokovic won it in convincing fashion 7-3.<\/p>\n
Novak broke twice in the second set to clinch the victory, moving one step closer to retaining his title at Crandon Park.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old Belgrade native was impressive on the return and solid on serve. He won 81% of points on his first serve and faced no break points in the 90-minute win.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad I managed to realise everything I intended tactically before the match,\u201d<\/strong> said Novak. \u201cIt\u2019s always tough to play someone who serves that well. It is important to hang in there mentally, be patient and make him play. I put a lot of pressure on his second serves, moved him a round. I\u2019m pleased with the performance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nMatch statistics<\/span>: aces (10-9), double faults (1-1), winners (25-29), unforced errors (8-38), total points won (80-60).<\/p>\nSunday\u2019s final (13:00 local time \/ 19:00 CET) will be the 26th career meeting between Novak and Andy. A week younger Djokovic leads their H2H series 17-8.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe world no.1 will bid for his fifth Miami crown. He lifted the trophy in 2007 (d. Canas), 2011 (d. Nadal), 2012 (d. Murray) and 2014 (d. Nadal).<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to the Murray clash, Novak said: \u201cAndy has been playing so well this year, and especially here in Miami over the years. He won it two times. He spends a lot of time here and practises on these courts, so he is familiar with the conditions. It’s going to be different for me because I played two night matches, the final is going to be at 1 o’clock. Hopefully I can adjust and perform as well as I did tonight.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nPhoto: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak defeated John Isner 7-6 (3), 6-2 to set final against Andy Murray (Sunday 13:00 local time \/ 19:00 CET).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":67917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011546,101011645,101012436,101011638,101010433],"class_list":["post-67921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion-en","tag-john-isner","tag-miami-en","tag-miami-open-2015-en","tag-semifinal-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67921","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=67921"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67979,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67921\/revisions\/67979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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