{"id":891,"date":"2009-09-08T06:04:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T05:04:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:12:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:12:13","slug":"brilliant-nole-powers-into-the-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/brilliant-nole-powers-into-the-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Nole powers into the quarter-finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/294.jpg> {nl}{nl}World no.4 Novak Djokovic defeated no.15 seed Czech Radek Stepanek in straight sets 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 in 1 hour and 46 minutes to book a quarter-final spot at the US Open.{nl}{nl}Novak broke Stepanek\u2019s service twice in the first set, in the fourth and sixth game, and then served out to love for 6-1.{nl}{nl}Stepanek held in the opening game of the second set, but couldn\u2019t hold pressure from Djokovic for much longer. Nole made two breaks to go 4-1 up. The Czech got one break back and held for 4-3. Stepanek was serving to stay in the second set, but with two poor forehands he handed Novak two break\/set points. No.15 seed saved the first with a great first serve but Djokovic capitalised on the second  chance to grab the set 6-3.{nl}{nl}The 22-year old from Belgrade held to 30 to open the third set. The Serb made a crucial break in the sixth game and then held to increase his lead to 5-2. Nole was confident serving for the match and closed it 6-3.{nl}{nl}Djokovic served 5 aces to Stepanek\u2019s 4.{nl}He hit 29 winners to Stepanek\u2019s 19, and made 21 unforced errors, 7 less than his opponent.{nl}The Serb capitalised on 6 of his 13 chances for break, while the Czech converted 1 of his 3 break points.{nl}{nl}Novak will play against world no.10 Fernando Verdasco for a place in the semi-finals. The Spaniard beat American John Isner in four sets 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Verdasco have met 5 times, Nole leads 3-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.4 Novak Djokovic defeated no.15 seed Czech Radek Stepanek in straight sets 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 in 1 hour and 46 minutes to book a quarter-final spot at the US Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010284],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-us-open-2009-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27059,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/27059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}