{"id":834,"date":"2009-05-14T17:27:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:35:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:35:01","slug":"nole-downs-seppi-to-reach-quarterfinals-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-downs-seppi-to-reach-quarterfinals-in-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole downs Seppi to reach quarterfinals in Madrid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/203.jpg> {nl}{nl}Third seeded Novak Djokovic reached the quarterfinals of the Madrid Masters tournament with a straight sets win over Italian Andreas Seppi 6-4, 6-4 in 1 hour and 36 minutes.{nl}{nl}The 21-year-old Belgrade native started the match very well. He grabbed an early break in the second game, held for 3-0 winning 14 points in a row, and even had a break chance for 4-0 lead, but Seppi saved it.{nl}{nl}The Italian broke back in the seventh game and held comfortably to equalise the score to 4-4. Nole faced scare in the ninth game but saved a break point and then managed to break his opponent\u2019s service for the second time to take the set 6-4.{nl}{nl}There were no breaks in the second set until the tenth game when Novak used his sixth break-match point to win it 6-4.{nl}{nl}Djokovic will play against world no.54 Ivan Ljubicic in the quarterfinals of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event. The Croat defeated Frenchman Gilles Simon (8) in three sets 3-6 6-4 6-3.{nl}{nl}Nole will also play in the doubles quarterfinals. Serbian pair Djokovic\/Vemic beat no.8 seeds Melo and Sa from Brazil 6-2 7-6(9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third seeded Novak Djokovic reached the quarterfinals of the Madrid Masters tournament with a straight sets win over Italian Andreas Seppi 6-4, 6-4 in 1 hour and 36 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012224],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-madrid-2009-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28437,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/28437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}