{"id":1178,"date":"2011-01-21T02:03:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T01:03:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:59:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:59:55","slug":"viktor-retires-nole-into-round-4-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/viktor-retires-nole-into-round-4-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor retires, Nole into round 4 in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/787.jpg> {nl}{nl}Third-seeded Novak Djokovic has reached the round of 16 at Australian Open for the fifth year in a row when his Davis Cup teammate and world no. 27 Viktor Troicki retired after just 39 minutes on Hisense Arena on Friday.{nl}{nl}A lenghty baseline rally ended with Troicki hitting the net to bring up the first break point for Nole in the second game of the match. The chance went after great Viktor\u2019s service, but he earned the second with a fantastic lob, and this time didn\u2019t waste it. A year younger Serb converted it with a forehand winner down the line for an early advantage. Troicki fought back immediately with a rebreak, but Djokovic broke him once again and then held to 15 for 4-1. Viktor saved two break\/set points in the eighth game, but Nole capitalised on the third to clinch the set 6-2.{nl}{nl}Troicki then retired due to a stomach muscle strain. {nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;I just heard that he had some struggles with his stomach muscle, but I wasn\u2019t sure how serious it is,&#8221;<\/b> said Djokovic. <b>&#8220;I didn\u2019t know that he\u2019s not able to serve&#8230; He obviously tried his best. It\u2019s the third round of a Grand Slam. It\u2019s not the way you want to finish the tournament, definitely. It\u2019s sad for him, but I have to move on.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}Troicki admitted he\u2019d struggled with the injury throughout the week. <b>&#8220;I was thinking it might get better for today, but it didn\u2019t,&#8221;<\/b> he said. <b>&#8220;I didn\u2019t want to risk anything; the season\u2019s just started. I had to be 100 per cent if I wanted to beat Novak \u2013 if any chance, I needed to be 100 per cent \u2013  so today I think I took a smart decision and retired from the match.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}First set statistics: aces (1-2), double faults (0-1), winners (11-7), unforced errors (8-17), total points won (35-25).{nl}{nl}Novak next faces no.14 seed Nicolas Almagro. The Spaniard beat world no.16 Croat Ivan Ljubicic in straight sets 6-4, 7-6(8), 6-3. {nl}{nl}Nole was leading 6-1, 1-0 when Almagro retired in their only previous encounter, in 2008, at the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Rome.{nl}{nl}We wish Viktor quick recovery, and good luck to Nole in the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third-seeded Novak Djokovic has reached the round of 16 at Australian Open for the fifth year in a row when his Davis Cup teammate and world no. 27 Viktor Troicki retired after just 39 minutes on Hisense Arena on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010220],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2011-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","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=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26959,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/26959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}