{"id":88988,"date":"2017-05-20T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=88988"},"modified":"2017-05-20T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:20:40","slug":"atp-rome-nole-books-thiem-semi-final-show-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/atp-rome-nole-books-thiem-semi-final-show-down\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Rome: Nole books Thiem semi-final showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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World no.2 Novak Djokovic stayed on track for his fifth Rome Masters title, when he outplayed former no.4 and reigning Olympic silver medalist Juan Martin del Potro 6-1, 6-4 at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match was suspended due to heavy rain on Friday as the Serbian star took a one-set lead over the Argentine in their quarter-final clash.<\/p>\n

The torrential rain forced a suspension, with the four-time former titlist leading 6-1, 1-2.<\/p>\n

When the play resumed on Saturday, Nole made a break in the fifth game and kept composed till the end to come through a potentially difficult contest.<\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (4-4), double faults (1-1), winners (24-14), unforced errors (21-21), total points won (60-47).<\/p>\n

Novak will face no.8 seed Dominic Thiem in the last four at 20:00 CET (4-0 H2H).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The young Austrian knocked out fourth seed Rafael Nadal in straight sets on Friday.<\/p>\n

No.16 seed Alexander Zverev (GER) takes on John Isner (USA) in the first semi-final.<\/p>\n

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

Nole moved into the last four of the Italian Open on Saturday as he beat Juan Martin del Potro 6-1, 6-4 in their delayed quarter-final match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":89000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012724,101011403,101012240],"class_list":["post-88988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-2017-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-rome-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88988","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=88988"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89009,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88988\/revisions\/89009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}