{"id":114426,"date":"2019-01-01T19:43:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=114426"},"modified":"2019-01-01T20:25:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:25:46","slug":"novak-off-to-a-flying-start-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-off-to-a-flying-start-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak off to a flying start in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak got the new season underway with a dominant straight sets victory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic made a flying start to his 2019 season as he saw off Damir Dzumhur 6-1, 6-2 in just 55 minutes in the first round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qatartennis.org\/tournaments\/qatar-exxonmobil-open-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Qatar ExxonMobil Open<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top seed broke twice in each set and denied his rival a single break point opportunity, while winning 81% of points on his first serve.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTo start off the tournament as I have tonight makes me very confident and also very happy,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>\u201cFirst day of the new year, I want to wish everyone a happy new year, lots of good emotions and lots of good tennis.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (3-0), double faults (2-2), total points won (58-32).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will play no.36-ranked Marton Fucsovics of Hungary on Wednesday (H2H 1-0) for a spot in the ATP 250 event quarter-finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his fourth appearance at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, Nole is looking to add a third Doha title (also 2016, 2017) to his trophy collection.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic will also be in action in the doubles, with his brother Marko, when they meet Damir Dzumhur (BiH) and Dusan Lajovic (SRB) in the last eight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We wish you a happy and prosperous 2019!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: WTF\/Paul Zimmer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak got the new season underway with a convincing 6-1, 6-2 victory over Damir Dzumhur in Doha R1. The match lasted just 55 minutes. The world no.1 next faces #36 Marton Fucsovics (H2H 1-0, HUN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":114418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012178,101011591,310,101011592],"class_list":["post-114426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-doha-en","tag-first-round","tag-qatar-exxonmobil-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114426","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=114426"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114430,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114426\/revisions\/114430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}