{"id":788,"date":"2009-03-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:41:24","slug":"nole-battles-through-to-the-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-battles-through-to-the-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole battles through to the quarterfinals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/141.jpg>{nl}{nl}Defending champion Novak Djokovic booked himself a place in the quarterfinals of Indian Wells Masters tournament with a hard-fought 7-6(7), 7-6(6) win over no.16 seed Stanislas Wawrinka in 2 hours and 22 minutes.{nl}{nl}Djokovic began the match with a comfortable service game, losing just one point. He made a break in the second game and then held for 3-0. After failing to convert a break point for 4-0, his game deteriorated. Wawrinka broke back in the fifth game and then held his serve to level at 3-3. The set went to a tie-breaker. Novak saved a set point and managed to win it 9-7.{nl}{nl}Number three seed had a chance for a break in the opening game of the second set, but the Swiss held. Wawrinka earned himself three break points in the sixth game and converted the third to go 4-2 up. World no.16 then held to increase his lead to 5-2. Nole started playing much better  and broke his opponent\u2019s service in the ninth game. Serving at 4-5 he saved a set point and equalised the result. The set was also decided in a tie-breaker. The Serb used his second match point to take it 8-6.{nl}{nl}Djokovic will play against American Andy Roddick (7) for a place in the semifinals. Roddick beat Spaniard David Ferrer (12) in three sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Novak Djokovic booked himself a place in the quarterfinals of Indian Wells Masters tournament with a hard-fought 7-6(7), 7-6(6) win over no.16 seed Stanislas Wawrinka in 2 hours and 22 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011807],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-indian-wells-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28477,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/28477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}