{"id":914,"date":"2009-10-16T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T14:41:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:09:28","slug":"novak-advances-to-semi-finals-in-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-advances-to-semi-finals-in-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak advances to semi-finals in Shanghai!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/329.jpg> {nl}{nl}World no.4 Novak Djokovic defeated no.8 seed Frenchman Gilles Simon in three sets 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 in 2 hours and 23 minutes to reach the semi-finals at the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 Presented by Rolex on Friday.{nl}{nl}Djokovic broke Simon\u2019s service in the second game of the first set. It lasted 9 minutes, they played 14 points, and Novak used his fourth chance for 2-0. The Frenchman broke back in the fifth game, but Nole made another break and then held for 5-2. The Serb produced his first ace of the match to bring up three set points, before wrapping up the set 6-3 at the first attempt when Simon hit a forehand long.{nl}{nl}Simon was dominating in the second set. He took it 6-2, breaking Djokovic\u2019s service twice.{nl}{nl}We saw five straight breaks of serve at the beginning of the third set. Nole made three and was first to hold his own in the sixth game for 4-2 lead. That was probably the crucial moment in the match. He broke Simon\u2019s service for the fourth time and then closed the set and match 6-2.{nl}{nl}The 22-year-old from Belgrade advanced to his 13th ATP World Tour semi-final this year and improved to a 66-17 match record on the 2009 tour season.{nl}{nl}He will play against no.6 seed Nikolay Davydenko for a place in the finals. The Russian beat no.13 seed Czech Radek Stepanek 6-1, 4-6, 6-1.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Davydenko have met eachother three times before, with Nole leading 2-1 in the head-to-heads, having lost their first match in Davis Cup tie last year. The Serb won both matches at the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai in 2008, RR and in the finals.{nl}{nl}The semi-final is scheduled on Saturday at 10.30 CET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.4 Novak Djokovic defeated no.8 seed Frenchman Gilles Simon in three sets 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 in 2 hours and 23 minutes to reach the semi-finals at the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 Presented by Rolex on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011953],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-shanghai-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28370,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/28370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}