{"id":849,"date":"2009-06-11T19:06:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:33:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:33:23","slug":"novak-battles-past-serra-to-reach-the-halle-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-battles-past-serra-to-reach-the-halle-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak battles past Serra to reach the Halle quarterfinals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Trava\/233.jpg> {nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player made one of the greatest comebacks in his career and clinched an important victory in the second round in Halle.{nl}{nl}Novak was  5-7 2-5 0-40 down against world no.56 Florent Serra, and one step from elimination, but he saved five match points and made a great comeback to beat the Frenchman 5-7 7-5 6-1.{nl}{nl}The match lasted 2 hours and 5 minutes.  Serra used his third set point to break Novak\u2019s service in the 12th game of the first set and won it 7-5.{nl}{nl}The Frenchman was a break up in the second set. He was leading 5-2 and 40-0 on Djokovic\u2019s service, but Nole managed to get out of the deep trouble. He won seven games in a row to take the set 7-5.{nl}{nl}After regaining control world no.4 started playing really well and dropped only one game in the third set, breaking his opponent\u2019s service twice for 6-1.{nl}{nl}Novak faces Jurgen Melzer in the quarterfinals of the Gerry Weber Open. German Nicolas Kiefer retired after the Austrian player won the first set 6-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best Serbian tennis player made one of the greatest comebacks in his career and clinched an important victory in the second round in Halle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011911],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-halle-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28423,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/28423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}