{"id":1148,"date":"2010-12-05T15:43:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:45:27","slug":"brilliant-nole-and-viktor-clinch-davis-cup-for-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/brilliant-nole-and-viktor-clinch-davis-cup-for-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Nole and Viktor clinch Davis Cup for Serbia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/\/741.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo: Darko Vojinovic<\/font>{nl}{nl}<b>Serbia is the 2010 Davis Cup winner!!!<\/b>{nl}{nl}In the first match of the day, Serbian no.1 Novak Djokovic brought the second point to Serbia with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 victory over world no.12 Gael Monfils to level the score against France in their final tie on indoor hard court in Belgrade.{nl}{nl}The match lasted 2 hours and 14 minutes.{nl}{nl}Novak opened the match with a love service game. He made a break already in the fourth game and then consolidated the break for 4-1 lead. The world no.3 faced scare in the seventh game, but held to keep the advantage. He put the pressure on Monfils, earned two break\/set points and capitalised on the second to take the set 6-2 in 35 minutes.{nl}{nl}Nole continued playing great in the second set, not giving his opponent any chance. The 23-year-old from Belgrade clinched a break of Monfils&#8217;s serve in the sixth game as the Frenchman hit his backhand long. The Serbian no.1 won a long rally in the eighth game to set up three break\/set points and converted the third for 6-2.{nl}{nl}Djokovic came back twice from a break down in the third set and eventually broke Monfils in the tenth game using second match point for 6-4.{nl}{nl}Match statistics: aces (3-6), double faults (0-3), winners (42-42), unforced errors (18-37), total points won (94-61).{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cIt was an unbelievable emotion, under the circumstances with the huge pressure, I played an amazing match,\u201d<\/b> said Novak after the match. <b>\u201cEverything was working for me today. This next match is maybe the most important match in all our careers, so we hope we can win.\u201d <\/b>{nl}{nl}Viktor Troicki thrilled 15000 fans in Belgrade Arena when he clinched the third point for Serbia for 3-2 win over France and the Davis Cup title for Serbia for the first time in its history! {nl}{nl}The world no.30 beat Michael Llodra in deciding fifth rubber 6-2, 6-2, 6-3.{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cThis was the greatest experience in my life,\u201d<\/b> said Troicki. <b>\u201cI still don&#8217;t believe it. I mean, probably tomorrow or in the next few days I will start feeling the emotions of winning the Davis Cup.\u201d{nl}{nl}\u201cSeriously, I think we all did a great job this year. I would like to thank everyone, the whole team. We truly believed that we could do it, even though we were 2&#8209;1 down. No words can describe my feeling right now.\u201d<\/b>{nl}{nl}The Serbs celebrated by having their heads shaved. Viktor described the victory as <b>&#8220;the most unbelievable moment of my life,&#8221;<\/b> while Nole added: <b>&#8220;It&#8217;s historic. This is our biggest success as individuals, as a team, as a country.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}<img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/\/743.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo: TSS<\/font>{nl}{nl}<u>Results:<\/u>{nl}{nl}Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) vs. <b>Gael Monfils (FRA)<\/b> <font color=\"red\">1-6, 6-7(4), 0-6<\/font>{nl}<b>Novak Djokovic (SRB)<\/b> vs. Gilles Simon (FRA) <font color=\"red\">6-3, 6-1, 7-5<\/font>{nl}{nl}Nenad Zimonjic \/ Viktor Troicki (SRB) vs. <b>Michael Llodra \/ Arnaud Clement (FRA)<\/b> {nl}<font color=\"red\">6-3, 7-6(3), 4-6, 5-7, 4-6<\/font>{nl}{nl}<b>Novak Djokovic (SRB)<\/b> vs. Gael Monfils (FRA) <font color=\"red\">6-2, 6-2, 6-4 <\/font>{nl}<b>Viktor Troicki (SRB)<\/b> vs. Michael Llodra (FRA) <font color=\"red\">6-2, 6-2, 6-3<\/font>{nl}{nl}<b>CONGRATULATIONS!!!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia is the 2010 Davis Cup winner!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010212],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-davis-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","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=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28163,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/28163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}