{"id":1098,"date":"2010-10-05T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:56:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:56:27","slug":"nole-advances-to-second-round-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-advances-to-second-round-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole advances to second round in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/650.jpg> {nl}{nl}Top seed Novak Djokovic began his title defence in Beijing (hard, $2,100,000) with straight sets win over world no.356 Chinese wildcard Mao-Xin Gong 6-1, 6-3 in 1 hour and 11 minutes.{nl}{nl}Though he played against the homecrowd hope, Djokovic got fantastic support in the capital of China. {nl}{nl}Novak rallied to a 5-0 lead in the first set, breaking Gong\u2019s serve twice. The 23-year old Belgrade native took the set 6-1.{nl}{nl}Djokovic made a break in the fifth game of the second set and then held for 4-2. He broke his opponent\u2019s service once again in the ninth game for 6-3 and a place in the second round of China Open.{nl}{nl}Novak hit 3 aces to Gong&#8217;s 1, and made 1 double fault to Gong&#8217;s 2. {nl}The Serb converted 4 of his 11 break point opportunities, while the Chinese didn&#8217;t have a single chance for break.{nl}Djokovic won 66 points to Gong&#8217;s 41.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;It feels good to be back at a court where I&#8217;ve had a lot success in the last couple years,&#8221;<\/b> said Djokovic, a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2009 China Open champion. <b>&#8220;It&#8217;s a beautiful stadium, and of course Chinese tennis fans are some of the best in the world.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;I think my serve lately is quite good comparing to the serve I had in last 12 months. I&#8217;m really happy with the improvement that I had in the recent months, and we&#8217;ve been working on it hard. It&#8217;s a process that takes time,&#8221;<\/b> added Novak.{nl}{nl}The world no.2 will next play against no.19 in the ATP Rankings Mardy Fish. The American defeated Janko Tipsarevic 6-2, 7-6(5).  {nl}{nl}They&#8217;ve met five times, Nole won all encounters. The last was in the fourth round of US Open when the Serb won in straight sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Novak Djokovic began his title defence in Beijing (hard, $2,100,000) with straight sets win over world no.356 Chinese wildcard Mao-Xin Gong 6-1, 6-3 in 1 hour and 11 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012042],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-beijing-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","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=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28215,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/28215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}