{"id":88089,"date":"2017-04-08T19:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T17:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=88089"},"modified":"2017-04-08T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T20:08:07","slug":"serbia-beats-spain-to-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/serbia-beats-spain-to-reach-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia beats Spain to reach Davis Cup semi-finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88086\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dc_apr2017_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dc_apr2017_07.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dc_apr2017_07-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dc_apr2017_07-267x161.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Serbia edged a tight doubles match against Spain on Saturday to seal a place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daviscup.com\/en\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Cup by BNP Paribas<\/a> last four for the first time since 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The team captain Nenad Zimonjic and Viktor Troicki defeated Marc Lopez and Pablo Carreno Busta 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-0, 4-6, 6-2 to give the home team an unassailable 3-0 lead against the competition\u2019s five-time winners ahead of Sunday\u2019s reverse singles rubbers.<\/p>\n<p>Nole and Viktor Troicki previously both won on the opening day at Aleksandar Nikolic Arena.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2010 champions Serbia will play against France in away tie on September 15-17.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will be a rematch of the 2010 final, when Serbia won their maiden title with an epic 3-2 victory over the French team in Belgrade Arena.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Tanjug<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia will next play against France in away tie on September 15-17. It will be a rematch of the 2010 final when Serbia won their maiden title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":88087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012319,101012598,101011403,101012262,101012235],"class_list":["post-88089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-belgrade-en","tag-davis-cup-2017-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-serbia-en","tag-spain-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88089","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=88089"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88133,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88089\/revisions\/88133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}