{"id":773,"date":"2009-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:42:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:42:45","slug":"nole-battles-past-hernych-to-reach-the-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-battles-past-hernych-to-reach-the-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole battles past Hernych to reach the quarterfinals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/138.jpg>{nl}{nl}Novak Djokovic defeated Jan Hernych in three sets, 6:3 3:6 6:4, in 2 hours and 7 minutes, to set up clash with fifth seed Croat Marin Cilic.{nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player was inconsistent during the whole match. He won the first set 6:3 making a break in the eighth game.{nl}{nl}No.1 seed saved two break points in the fourth game of the second set, but faced scare again in the sixth. He handed game to Hernych making a double fault. The Czech held til the end of the set and took it 6:3. {nl}{nl}Djokovic was broken in the third game of the final set, but managed to rebreak immediately for 2:2. The crucial moment was in the tenth game when Novak earned two break\/match points. He converted the second to close the set 6:4.{nl}{nl}He will play against world no.19 Marin Cilic for a place in the semifinals of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships.. The Croat came through a challenging second round match against Frenchman Julien Benneteau, 6:3 4:6 7:5.{nl}{nl}Novak won their two previous matches, in Dubai and New York in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic defeated Jan Hernych in three sets, 6:3 3:6 6:4, in 2 hours and 7 minutes, to set up clash with fifth seed Croat Marin Cilic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012182],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-dubai-2009-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","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=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28490,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/28490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}