{"id":112561,"date":"2018-11-12T22:49:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T21:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=112561"},"modified":"2018-11-12T23:53:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T22:53:59","slug":"nole-tops-isner-in-london-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-tops-isner-in-london-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitto ATP Finals: Nole tops Isner in London opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 Novak Djokovic got off to a winning start at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nittoatpfinals.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The top seed recorded his ninth win in 11 meetings against John Isner (USA, 8) 6-4, 6-3 in their first Group Guga Kuerten match that lasted 73 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak broke Isner&#8217;s serve on third opportunity for 3-2 and held to increase the advantage. Solid on his own serve and magnificent on return, Djokovic closed out the first set after 43 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>A double break in the second set saw the five-time former champion seal his 50th match win in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I had three breaks of serve of John which is sometimes &#8216;mission impossible&#8217; but I managed to be at right place at the right time,&#8221;<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>&#8220;I held serve well, I backed it up from the baseline, I played very solid and didn&#8217;t give him many opportunities.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (6-13), double faults (1-2), winners (22-23), unforced errors (6-26), total points won (64-44).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lgqk-qi_75E\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next play against no.3 seed, Alexander Zverev of Germany, on Wednesday at 14:00 local time (15:00 CET).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Zverev beat Marin Cilic in straight sets in the other match in the Gustavo Kuerten group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world no.1 moved to 1-0 in Group Guga Kuerten after beating no.8 seed John Isner 6-4, 6-3 at the Nitto ATP Finals on Monday. It was a masterful performance from Djokovic who hit 21 winners and had just six unforced errors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":112555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012193,101012613,101013027,101013035,101011545],"class_list":["post-112561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-london-en","tag-masters-cup-en","tag-nitto-atp-finals-en","tag-rr1-en","tag-season-finale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112561","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112561"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112616,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112561\/revisions\/112616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}