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\"collagetennisnovak\"Doha:The world’s top two players, Britain’s Andy Murray <\/a><\/strong>and Serbia’s Novak Djokovic<\/a><\/strong>, have advanced to the semi-finals of the Qatar Open tennis tournament.<\/p>\n

Murray, the world No. 1, beat Spain’s Nicolas Almagro 7-6 (7-4), 7-5 while Djokovic, the defending champion in Doha, took out Czech Radek Stepanek 6-3, 6-3 in tough weather conditions on Thursday, reports Efe news agency.<\/p>\n

“It was obviously very windy and it was blowing across the court a lot. That makes timing pretty difficult,” Murray said. “It was hard for everyone today.”<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Scotsman, who won the title here in 2008 and 2009, will play third seeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic in the semi-final as he tries to advance to his first championship match of 2017.<\/p>\n

Berdych beat France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the fifth seed and 2012 Qatar Open champion, 7-5, 6-3.<\/p>\n

Djokovic, who fell out of the top spot in the rankings in November, sounded pleased with his play after the match.<\/p>\n

“I thought in terms of my performance, under the circumstances, I put the level up again, which is great. So everything is going in the right direction,” the 29-year-old Djokovic said.<\/p>\n

The Serbian star, who has won 12 Grand Slam titles, will play Spain’s Fernando Verdasco in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

Verdasco beat big-serving Croat Ivo Karlovic, the sixth seed, 6-2, 7-5.<\/p>\n

“He’s a very complete player,” Djokovic said, referring to Verdasco. “He’s got weapons from the forehand side, big serve (and he’s) very strong.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Murray, the world No. 1, beat Spain’s Nicolas Almagro 7-6 (7-4), 7-5 while Djokovic, the defending champion in Doha, took out Czech Radek Stepanek 6-3, 6-3 in tough weather conditions on Thursday, reports Efe news agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1445,466,761,20234,12894],"class_list":["post-31583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-tennis-news","tag-andy-murray","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-qatar-open-tennis-tournament","tag-tennis-news"],"yoast_head":"\nNovak Djokovic, Andy Murray enter Qatar Open semis - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News & Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis & Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31583\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray enter Qatar Open semis - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News & Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis & Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Doha:The world's top two players, Britain's Andy Murray and Serbia's Novak Djokovic, have advanced to the semi-finals of the Qatar Open tennis tournament. 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