{"id":71061,"date":"2015-07-08T20:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=71061"},"modified":"2015-07-09T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T08:03:26","slug":"nole-reaches-650-match-wins-milestone-books-semi-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-reaches-650-match-wins-milestone-books-semi-final-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole reaches 650 match wins milestone, books semi-final spot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71056\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wimbledon2015_11.jpg\" alt=\"LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 07:  Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after winning his Gentlemens Singles Fourth Round match against Kevin Anderson of South Africa during day eight of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 7, 2015 in London, England.  (Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images)\" width=\"594\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wimbledon2015_11.jpg 594w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wimbledon2015_11-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wimbledon2015_11-267x182.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wimbledon2015_11-590x403.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic recorded his 650th match win on Wednesday after defeating Croatia&#8217;s ninth seed Marin Cilic 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and 48 minutes to reach the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a> semi-final for the sixth straight year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak&#8217;s quarter-final win also earned him his 50th career victory at the All England Club and fourth place in the list of most Major semi-final appearances in the Open Era (27), behind Roger Federer (38), Jimmy Connors (31) and Ivan Lendl (28).<\/p>\n<p>The defending champion did not face a single break point in the match, and broke once in each of the three sets to extend his H2H advantage over Cilic to 13-0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know how my body was going to feel but I was hoping I would play well, which I have done,\u201c<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>&#8220;I try not to take it for granted. The top players are expected to reach the final stages but you have to earn it.\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Match statistics<\/u>: aces (4-8), double faults (1-0), winners (27-30), unforced errors (12-20), total points won (93-71).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6X8d85sUYXg\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will face no.21 seed Richard Gasquet for a place in his fourth Championships final (11-1 H2H). The Frenchman upset fourth seed Stan Wawrinka in five sets.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the challenge, Djokovic said: <strong>&#8220;Gasquet has been there. He loves playing on grass and is one of the most talented players we have on grass.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seven-time former titlist Roger Federer (SUI, 2) and 2013 winner Andy Murray (GBR, 3) complete the semi-final line-up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak&#8217;s straight sets win over ninth seed Marin Cilic earned him his 50th career victory at the All England Club. He will face Richard Gasquet on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":71056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011546,101012193,101011403,101011449,101011677],"class_list":["post-71061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-defending-champion-en","tag-london-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-the-championships-en","tag-wimbledon-2015-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71061","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=71061"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71111,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71061\/revisions\/71111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}