{"id":1166,"date":"2011-01-04T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T12:37:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:42:26","slug":"hopman-cup-serbia-australia-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/hopman-cup-serbia-australia-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopman Cup: Serbia &#8211; Australia 3-0!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/\/770.jpg> {nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic scored his second win in singles in 2011. He outplayed world no.54 and former world no.1 Australian Lleyton Hewitt in straight sets 6-2, 6-4 in 81 minutes, to bring second victory to Serbia in group A at the 23rd Hopman Cup on Tuesday.{nl}{nl}Earlier today Ana Ivanovic defeated Alicia Molik 6-4, 6-0.{nl}{nl}We saw exciting mixed doubles match between Serbia&#8217;s Djokovic and Ivanovic, and Australia&#8217;s Hewitt and Molik. Nole and Ana triumphed in super tie-breaker, 6-7, 7-5, 10-6, and now they need only one win on Thursday against Belgium to secure the first place in the group and reach the finals.{nl}{nl}Nole saved four break points in the fifth game of the first set and then broke Hewitt\u2019s serve twice, in the sixth and eighth games, to take the set 6-2.{nl}{nl}Djokovic made a flying start to the second set breaking his opponent in the second game, but the Australian fought back for 2-2. The next five games remained on serve until Hewitt doublefaulted on a break\/match point in the tenth game for 6-4 for Serbia.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;I played great,&#8221;<\/b> said Nole after the singles encounter. <b>&#8220;From the start of the match, especially at the end of the first set, I played some of my best tennis in a year and a half.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}The last match in group A, on January 6 at 8am CET, sees Serbia vs Belgium (Ana vs Henin, Novak vs Bemelmans).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic scored his second win in singles in 2011. He outplayed world no.54 and former world no.1 Australian Lleyton Hewitt in straight sets 6-2, 6-4 in 81 minutes, to bring second victory to Serbia in group A at the 23rd Hopman Cup on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011988],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-hopman-cup-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","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=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28137,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/28137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}