{"id":88728,"date":"2017-05-11T16:36:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T14:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=88728"},"modified":"2017-05-11T22:58:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:58:21","slug":"atp-madrid-brilliant-nole-sets-nishikori-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/atp-madrid-brilliant-nole-sets-nishikori-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Madrid: Brilliant Nole sets Nishikori quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"

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World no.2 Novak Djokovic won a third round battle against Feliciano Lopez, under a closed roof, at the Mutua Madrid Open<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The defending champion recorded a 6-4, 7-5 victory over the 38th-ranked Spaniard in one hour and 33 minutes to advance into the last eight at the ATP 1000 event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nole broke in the final games of both sets and saved the only break point he faced en-route to his 16th match win of the year.<\/p>\n

“The level was definitely very high today from both of us,”<\/strong> Novak said. “I think Feliciano played really well, especially in the second set. I wasn’t winning too many points on his service games until the last one, when I managed to return a lot of balls back in play and then win the match. One break was enough, 5-4, 6-5, both sets. At the end, 5-5, 0\/30, we had a couple of really long points. I was in trouble, but I managed to get my way out of it with some great gets. That pumped me up.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (6-5), double faults (1-0), winners (24-24), unforced errors (21-22), total points won (63-58).<\/p>\n

Novak will take an 11-2 H2H mark into Friday\u2019s quarter-final clash against no.6 seed Kei Nishikori of Japan (12:00 noon CET). Djokovic has won their last 10 meetings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Novak recorded a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Feliciano Lopez in one hour and 33 minutes on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":88717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,133,101012721,1039],"class_list":["post-88728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-mutua-madrid-open-2017-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88728","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=88728"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88747,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88728\/revisions\/88747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}