{"id":83098,"date":"2016-07-31T03:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T01:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=83098"},"modified":"2016-07-31T13:35:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T11:35:59","slug":"impressive-nole-to-battle-for-toronto-title-with-nishikori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/impressive-nole-to-battle-for-toronto-title-with-nishikori\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Nole to battle Nishikori for Toronto title"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sjajni<\/p>\n

Top seed and world no.1 Novak Djokovic will have the opportunity to win his fourth Rogers Cup<\/a> title after beating no.10 seed Gael Monfils 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday in the semi-finals of the ATP Masters 1000 hard-court event in Toronto.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novak overcame a slow start and a break deficit, responding with a double break to take the opening set 6-3. The Serb rode the momentum to break the Frenchman twice more in the second set, and improved to a 50-4 W\/L record on the season.<\/p>\n

In his best performance of the tournament, Nole won 80% of points on his first serve and was 12\/15 on net approaches. The match lasted 73 minutes.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Monte-Carlo resident is now 12-0 in the pair\u2019s ATP Head2Head rivalry.<\/p>\n

“You do have a certain mental comfort knowing that you have had plenty of success against your opponent. Nevertheless, that is not a certainty. That’s not a guarantee that you can win the match. It actually makes him more eager to come out and play his best tennis,”<\/strong> Djokovic said.<\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (1-2), double faults (5-1), winners (12-12), unforced errors (16-22).<\/p>\n

Novak will take on Kei Nishikori in the final (Sunday at 16:00 local time \/ 22:00 CET), after the no.3 seed ousted Swiss Stan Wawrinka 7-6, 6-1 earlier in the day. He has a 9-2 H2H record against the Japanese star.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Djokovic will contest his fifth ATP World Tour Masters 1000 final of the year, after lifting the champion’s trophy in Indian Wells, Miami and Madrid, and finishing runner-up in Rome.<\/p>\n

The Belgrade native is through to his 93rd tour-level final and will look to win his 66th career title and a record 30th ATP Masters 1000 shield.<\/p>\n

You can download Nole August desktop calendar here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Novak beat no.10 seed Gael Monfils 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday in the semi-finals and improved to a 50-4 match record on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":83095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012106,101011267,101011261,34,101012577],"class_list":["post-83098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-canada","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rogers-cup-en","tag-semifinal","tag-toronto-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83098","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=83098"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83141,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83098\/revisions\/83141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}