{"id":767,"date":"2009-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:43:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:43:42","slug":"djokovic-powers-into-the-semifinals-in-marseille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/djokovic-powers-into-the-semifinals-in-marseille\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic powers into the semifinals in Marseille!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/\/134.jpg> {nl}{nl}Novak Djokovic won the battle of the 21-year olds, outlasting German Mischa Zverev (76) in straight sets, 6:3 6:3 in 1 hour and 8 minutes.{nl}{nl}Nole earned himself two break points in the sixth game of the first set. He materialised the second to go up 4:2, and then held to increase his lead to 5:2. There were no breaks of service til the end of the set, and Djokovic closed it 6:3.{nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player continued playing in the same rhythm . He broke his opponent&#8217;s service in the opening game of the second set . No.1 seed had to put an effort to hold in the fourth game, but he managed to keep the lead, and win the set 6:3.{nl}{nl}Zverev didn&#8217;t have a single chance for a break in the match.{nl}{nl}Djokovic will play Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga for a place in the finals of the Open 13 tournament in Marseille who beat Spaniard Feliciano Lopez.{nl}{nl}Novak has played four times against Tsonga, and won only one match, last year in the finals of Australian Open. Tsonga was better in Bangkok, Paris and Shanghai.{nl}{nl}Semifinal matches are scheduled on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic won the battle of the 21-year olds, outlasting German Mischa Zverev (76) in straight sets, 6:3 6:3 in 1 hour and 8 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011750],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-marseille-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28494,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/28494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}