{"id":107812,"date":"2021-07-29T11:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T11:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=107812"},"modified":"2021-07-29T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T11:57:14","slug":"djokovic-cruises-past-nishikori-and-into-olympic-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=107812","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic cruises past Nishikori and into Olympic semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Djokovic-2.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Tokyo: Novak Djokovic eased into the Tokyo\u00a0Olympics men&#8217;s tennis semi-finals on Thursday with a straight-sets thrashing of Japanese hope Kei Nishikori.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The world number one, chasing a calendar Golden Grand Slam, ended home interest in the tennis with a ruthless 6-2, 6-0 victory in only 70 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Djokovic has never won the Olympic singles title, with a bronze medal in 2008 his best result at the Games, but will face either Alexander Zverev or Jeremy Chardy in the last four.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The 34-year-old Serb, who has already captured the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon titles this season, was never in trouble against Nishikori, who made 16 unforced errors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The former world number four did save two match points in the final game, but Djokovic made no mistake on the next opportunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The quarter-final was played in cooler conditions than earlier in the tournament after Djokovic lobbied organisers to change the schedule, moving the day&#8217;s start time from 11:00 am local time (0200 GMT) to 3:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Djokovic is also in action later Thursday in the mixed doubles quarter-finals alongside Nina Stojanovic, facing Germany&#8217;s Kevin Krawietz and Laura Siegemund.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/judoka-shah-hussain-knocked-out-tokyo-olympics-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judoka Shah Hussain knocked out of Tokyo Olympics 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tokyo: Novak Djokovic eased into the Tokyo\u00a0Olympics men&#8217;s tennis semi-finals on Thursday with a straight-sets thrashing of Japanese hope Kei Nishikori. The world number one, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=107812\" title=\"Djokovic cruises past Nishikori and into Olympic semis\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107814,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107812\/revisions\/107814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}