Novak Djokovic admitted he had to \u201cfight\u201d to come back from a set down to beat world number 36, Hungary\u2019s Marton Fucsovics at the Qatar Open.\u201cI was kind of in a corner and I had to find my way and fight my way through.\u201d The match lasted exactly two hours, which was twice as long as the Serb spent on court in his first round stroll against Damir Dzumhur, where he lost just three games.<\/p>\n
A backhand winner eventually secured victory for Djokovic but the result was in doubt for a long time, with the Serb only breaking Fucsovics in the tenth game of the second set to ensure the match went into a final set shootout.The world number one survived a huge scare to eventually triumph 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 Wednesday and admitted his opponent was \u201cvery close to the win\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the first two sets he was the better player,\u201d said two-time Qatar Open champion Djokovic.\u201cHe played really well, smart, changing up the rhythm and the pace of the ball and moving me around.<\/p>\n
Djokovic added: \u201cI knew his qualities and especially in the slower conditions, so I did expect that it was going to be a match with a lot of rallies and very physical and that has proven to be the case.\u201d The number one seed, will play fifth seed Nikoloz Basilashvili in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
If he wins his last eight match, Djokovic is on course to meet Stan Wawrinka in the semi-finals after the Swiss also won on Wednesday, beating Chile\u2019s Nicolas Jarry 6-4, 7-6 . through is France\u2019s Pierre-Hugues Herbert who notched a second thrilling victory in as many nights by beating Germany\u2019s Max Marterer 6-3, 6-7 (6\/8), 7-6 (8\/6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Novak Djokovic admitted he had to \u201cfight\u201d to come back from a set down to beat world number 36, Hungary\u2019s Marton Fucsovics at the Qatar Open.\u201cI was kind of in a corner and I had to find my way and fight my way through.\u201d The match lasted exactly two hours, which was twice as long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51665,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51663\/revisions\/51665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}