{"id":1126,"date":"2010-11-10T13:35:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T12:35:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:51:05","slug":"novak-begins-paris-title-defence-with-win-over-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-begins-paris-title-defence-with-win-over-monaco\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak begins Paris title defence with win over Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/702.jpg> {nl}{nl}World no.3 Novak Djokovic found his way back from a slow start to reach the third round at the BNP Paribas Masters, beating world no.24 Argentine Juan Monaco 6-4,  6-3 in 1 hour and 23 minutes.{nl}{nl}Novak was broken in the third game of the first set. He fought back in the eighth game, converting his second opportunity to level to 4-4. The defending champion faced scare in the ninth game, but held and broke Monaco\u2019s serve once again to take the set 6-4 in 42 minutes.{nl}{nl}Nole saved break points in the first and third games of the second set before making a crucial break in the sixth game for 4-2 lead. The no.2 seed held to 15 serving for the match and closed it 6-3.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;He was taking the balls early and being aggressive, and he was the better player at the start of the match,&#8221;<\/b> said Novak after the second round victory. <b>&#8220;I was lucky to get the break. When I did that I regained confidence and control of the match, and felt better on the court.&#8221;{nl}<\/b>{nl}Djokovic served 7 aces to Monaco&#8217;s 1.{nl}The Serb hit 19 winners to the Argentine&#8217;s 12, and made 20 unforced errors, 6 less than his opponent.{nl}Djokovic capitalised on 3 of his 4  chances for break, while Monaco converted only 1 of his 8 break points.{nl}{nl}Novak will next face world no.34 Michael Llodra. The Frenchman upset no.16 seed American John Isner 6-3, 6-4.{nl}{nl}Djokovic won their only encounter in Miami 2007.{nl}{nl}Last year Novak clinched his 16th career title with a fantastic three sets win over homecrowd favourite Gael Monfils 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(3). He also defeated Juan Monaco, Arnaud Clement, Robin Soderling and Rafael Nadal en route to the trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.3 Novak Djokovic found his way back from a slow start to reach the third round at the BNP Paribas Masters, beating world no.24 Argentine Juan Monaco 6-4,  6-3 in 1 hour and 23 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012036],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-paris-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","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=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28188,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/28188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}