{"id":850,"date":"2009-06-12T19:59:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T18:59:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:33:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:33:17","slug":"nole-downs-melzer-for-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-downs-melzer-for-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole downs Melzer for semifinals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Trava\/235.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo: pmk<\/font>{nl}{nl}World no.4 Novak Djokovic advanced into the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open with an easy 6:1, 6:4 win over Austrian Jurgen Melzer in 67 minutes on Friday.{nl}{nl}Novak broke his opponent\u2019s service twice in the first set, in the fourth and sixth game, an won it convincingly 6:1.{nl}{nl}The Serb made a break in the third game of the second set and then held to go 3:1 up. Melzer won the next three games, breaking Nole\u2019s service once to take a lead. Djokovic was dominating til the end of the match. He managed to break again in the ninth game and then served it out for 6:4 to set up the semifinal clash with world no.136 Olivier Rochus.{nl}{nl}The Belgian defeated home player Benjamin Becker in three sets. The result was 6:7 (4:7), 6:3, 6:3.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Rochus have met twice, the Belgian won both matches back in 2005, in Lyon and in Davis Cup tie vs Belgium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.4 Novak Djokovic advanced into the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open with an easy 6-1, 6-4 win over Austrian Jurgen Melzer in 67 minutes on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011911],"class_list":["post-850","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\/850","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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28422,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/28422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}