{"id":1033,"date":"2010-06-13T19:16:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T18:16:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:44:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:44:54","slug":"novak-clinches-his-first-atp-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-clinches-his-first-atp-doubles-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak clinches his first ATP doubles title!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Trava\/527.jpg> {nl}{nl}Novak Djokovic and Jonathan Erlich captured the AEGON Championships trophy in doubles competition on team debut.{nl}{nl}The Serbian\/Israeli pair came back from a set down to defeat Karol Beck and David Skoch 6-7(6), 6-2, 10-3 in 90 minutes.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Erlich failed to convert two break\/set points in the 12th game of the first set, so it went into a tie-breaker. Beck and Skoch were more successful and took it 8-6.{nl}{nl}Novak and Erlich broke their opponents&#8217; serve twice in the second set and closed it convincingly 6-2 in just 25 minutes.{nl}{nl}The Serbian\/Israeli combination continued their domination in super tie-breaker. They won it 10-3 to capture the doubles title at the ATP World Tour 250 tournament in London.{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cEvery match tie-break was incredible, we played with so much focus and determination. I was lucky to be playing with one of the best players in the world,\u201d<\/b> said Djokovic after the match. <b>\u201cIt\u2019s a first grass court title for me, in singles or doubles. I\u2019d been in two finals. It\u2019s important to me,\u201d<\/b> added the 23-year-old Belgrade native.{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cI\u2019m very excited, I\u2019d been waiting to win that title for a long time, two years,\u201d<\/b> said Erlich. <b>\u201cI want to thank Novak, he wanted to play with me. He\u2019s a good friend, it has been an honour and I\u2019ve enjoyed every minute.\u201d{nl}<\/b>{nl}The winners get 250 ATP points. Nole will climb up the doubles rankings on Monday, he is currently ranked #393.{nl}{nl}Djokovic will enter Wimbledon (June 21-July 4) with seven grass-court matches under his belt, two in singles and five in doubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic and Jonathan Erlich captured the AEGON Championships trophy in doubles competition on team debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[545],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-aegon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","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=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28271,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/28271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}