{"id":85969,"date":"2017-01-04T17:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T16:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=85969"},"modified":"2017-01-06T19:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:28:11","slug":"nole-reaches-qatar-exxonmobil-open-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-reaches-qatar-exxonmobil-open-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole reaches Qatar ExxonMobil Open quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nole<\/p>\n

No.2 seed Novak Djokovic recorded his second win in 2017, easing past Horacio Zeballos 6-3, 6-4 at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The defending champion broke once in each set and never allowed the Argentine a single break point opportunity during their 72-minute second round clash.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re trying to start with the right intensity, and the start of the match today was definitely better than the first round,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. \u201cI was quite pleasantly surprised with his aggressive play, it was a good, quality match. I thought I played well on my service games.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (4-4), double faults (1-2), winners (20-17), unforced errors (10-17), total points won (61-40).<\/p>\n

Novak will next play Radek Stepanek (ATP #107) against whom he holds a 12-1 career H2H mark. <\/strong>The Czech qualifier defeated Arthur De Greef (BEL, WC) 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n

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

Novak eased past Argentine Horacio Zeballos 6-3, 6-4 in 72 minutes on Wednesday to advance into the last eight in Doha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":85967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011749,133,101011591,101011590,101011592,113],"class_list":["post-85969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250","tag-defending-champion","tag-doha-en","tag-qatar-en","tag-qatar-exxonmobil-open-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85969","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=85969"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85983,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85969\/revisions\/85983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}