{"id":774,"date":"2009-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:42:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:42:36","slug":"djokovic-advances-to-the-semifinals-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/djokovic-advances-to-the-semifinals-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic advances to the semifinals in Dubai!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/140.jpg>{nl}{nl}Number three in the world Novak Djokovic improved to 12-4 on the 2009 ATP World Tour season after defeating Marin Cilic in 2 sets, 6:3  6:4, in 1 hour and 38 minutes at the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships on Thursday.{nl}{nl}Nole earned himself three break points in the fourth game, and converted the first with a fantastic drop shot. The Serb held to love to increase his lead to 4:1. At 5:3 Cilic had two break points and a chance to come back into the set, but the 21-year old saved both and closed it 6:3. {nl}{nl}No.1 seed broke Cilic\u2019s service in the fifth game of the second set to go up 3:2. He faced scare in the eighth game, but managed to save two break points to keep the lead and took the set 6:4 to book himself a place in the semifinals.{nl}{nl}Djokovic will next play against Gilles Simon. The Frenchman defeated his compatriot Fabrice Santoro in straight sets, 7:6(3) 6:1.{nl}{nl}Novak and Gilles have played twice so far. Simon won in Marseille last year, Nole was better at the Masters Cup in the Shanghai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number three in the world Novak Djokovic improved to 12-4 on the 2009 ATP World Tour season after defeating Marin Cilic in 2 sets, 6:3  6:4, in 1 hour and 38 minutes at the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012182],"class_list":["post-774","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\/774","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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28488,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/28488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}