{"id":1119,"date":"2010-11-02T19:27:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:52:53","slug":"nole-advances-to-second-round-in-basel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-advances-to-second-round-in-basel\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole advances to second round in Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/690.jpg> {nl}{nl}Second-seeded Novak Djokovic began his title defence in Basel (Indoor Hard, \u20ac 1,225,000) with straight sets win over world no.26 Latvian Ernests Gulbis 6-4, 6-2 in 1 hour and 12 minutes.{nl}{nl}Novak made a break in the sixth game of the opening set and then consolidated the break for 5-2 lead. The 23-year-old Belgrade native had two set points in the ninth game, but Gulbis managed to break back. Nole earned three break\/set points in the tenth game and converted the third opportunity to take the set 6-4 in 44 minutes.{nl}{nl}The world no.3 dominated in the second set. He broke his opponent\u2019s serve twice, in the fourth and eighth games, for 6-2.{nl}{nl}Postmatch interview:{nl}{nl}<object width=\"525\" height=\"418\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2dPZK2l0qf8?fs=1&#038;hl=de_DE\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2dPZK2l0qf8?fs=1&#038;hl=de_DE\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"525\" height=\"418\"><\/embed><\/object>{nl}{nl}Match statistics: aces (5-5), double faults (1-2), winners (25-27), unforced errors (14-22), total points won (64-45).{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;It was the first match of the tournament for me, and you never know what to expect,&#8221;<\/b> said Novak after the win. <b>&#8220;At the start of the match I was trying to find a good rhythm and I kept in control of the match throughout. I was returning well, playing patiently, playing good tennis when I needed to and I\u2019m happy to go through to the second round in straight sets.&#8221;<\/b> {nl}{nl}Djokovic will next play against world no.41 qualifier Jarkko Nieminen of Finland who defeated German Daniel Brands 6-3, 6-2.{nl}{nl}Nole and Nieminen have met three times, the Serb leads 2-1. Nieminen won their last encounter in Sydney 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second-seeded Novak Djokovic began his title defence in Basel (Indoor Hard, \u20ac 1,225,000) with straight sets win over world no.26 Latvian Ernests Gulbis 6-4, 6-2 in 1 hour and 12 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012032],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-basel-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","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=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28196,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/28196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}