{"id":1061,"date":"2010-08-18T18:56:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T17:56:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:36:52","slug":"nole-faces-nalbandian-in-r3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-faces-nalbandian-in-r3\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole faces Nalbandian in R3!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/563.jpg> {nl}{nl}World number three Novak Djokovic started his Cincinnati Masters campaign with a straight sets win over his good friend and compatriot world no.47 Viktor Troicki 6-3, 7-5 in 1 hour and 40 minutes.{nl}{nl}It was his 100th win at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments.{nl}{nl}Djokovic played better than his opponent in the first set. A break in the fourth game was enough for Novak to take it 6-3 in 35 minutes.{nl}{nl}A double fault from Djokovic saw him fail to capitalise on a game point in the second game of the second set and Troicki went on to break when the younger Serb hit a backhand into the net. Novak then broke Troicki\u2019s service twice, in the third and fifth games, to go up 3-2, but the 24-year-old made his second break in the match to level the result. Nole made a crucial break in the eleventh game and then closed the set and match 7-5.{nl}{nl}Match statistics: aces (3-5), double faults (6-5), winners (22-16), unforced errors (35-36), total points won (80-64){nl}{nl}Djokovic will face world no.37 David Nalbandian in the third round. The Argentine advanced when no.19 in the ATP rankings American John Isner retired due to ankle injury.{nl}{nl}Novak and Nalbandian have met four times, Nole leads 3-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number three Novak Djokovic started his Cincinnati Masters campaign with a straight sets win over his compatriot world no.47 Viktor Troicki 6-3, 7-5 in 1 hour and 40 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012083],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-cincinnati-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","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=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28247,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/28247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}