{"id":481827,"date":"2024-04-12T13:48:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481827"},"modified":"2024-04-12T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T17:48:22","slug":"nole-beats-de-minaur-in-straight-sets-to-reach-monte-carlo-1-2-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nole-beats-de-minaur-in-straight-sets-to-reach-monte-carlo-1-2-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole beats De Minaur in straight sets to reach Monte Carlo 1\/2 finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic, world number 2, eliminated world number 11, Alex De Minaur, 2-0 sets and advanced to the \u00bd finals of the Masters 1000 on clay in Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">World #1 Novak Djokovic beats #11 Alex De Minaur 7-5, 6-4 to reach the semifinals in Monte-Carlo for the first time&#8230; since 2015!<\/p>\n<p>77th Masters 1000 semifinal, a new all time record. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SZA7uJ2KQ1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SZA7uJ2KQ1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jos\u00e9 Morgado (@josemorgado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josemorgado\/status\/1778819377736847513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian had 6 break point opportunities, and he converted only 1, but it was enough to win the 1st set as his Australian opponent had 3 break opportunities, but Nole saved them all.<\/p>\n<p>After the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set, Djokovic took a medical timeout as he was not at his best. The 2nd set began very strangely as the Serbian won his serve to make it 1-0, and after that, we saw 6 straight games where the player who served lost and De Minaur tied 4-4. The Australian was serving to force a tiebreak, but Nole made a crucial break to win the set and the match in straight sets and to be among the best 4 players in Monte Carlo as he will face Humbert or Rude at the semifinals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Novak Djokovic passes Rafa Nadal as the man with the most Masters Semifinals in history.<\/p>\n<p>77. <\/p>\n<p>Immortal legend. \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udc10 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MUN1fJCvcR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MUN1fJCvcR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1778819516182777957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic, world number 2, eliminated world number 11, Alex De Minaur, 2-0 sets and advanced to the \u00bd finals of the Masters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481828,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17953,18751,16740,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17954,18752,17855,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Djokovic played through an injury but, despite that, defeated Alex.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481829,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481827\/revisions\/481829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481827"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481827"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}