{"id":80585,"date":"2016-05-12T21:31:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T19:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=80585"},"modified":"2016-05-13T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:22:28","slug":"novak-rallies-to-advance-into-italian-open-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-rallies-to-advance-into-italian-open-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak rallies to advance into Italian Open quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

World no.1 Novak Djokovic rallied from a set down on Thursday, claiming a spot in the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a> quarter-final with a 0-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Thomaz Bellucci.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After dropping the first set to love in 24 minutes, the top seed stormed back to seal\u00a0the final two sets, improving his season’s record to 35-2.<\/p>\n

Bellucci surprised the defending champion in the early going but was unable to respond when Novak found his form. The match lasted one hour and 37 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first set was a complete Bellucci storm, and I was blown away from the court,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said. \u201cThe crucial game was the first game of the second set where I held my serve, and then I felt things started to go my way as I tactically changed certain things, started to change the pace, get him on the move from one corner to another, with a little bit of a shorter and longer variety of balls. And it worked well.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (1-1), double faults (0-3), winners (10-14), unforced errors (29-27).<\/p>\n

Novak will next take on fifth seed and seven-time former titlist Rafael Nadal (25-23 H2H record).<\/strong> The Spaniard beat Nick Kyrgios 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-4 for a place in the last eight.<\/p>\n

Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The top seed defeated world no.37 Thomaz Bellucci 0-6, 6-3, 6-2 to set up a quarter-final showdown with Rafael Nadal (ESP, 5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":80582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012562,101012240,1039],"class_list":["post-80585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-2016-en","tag-rome-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80585","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=80585"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80606,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80585\/revisions\/80606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}