{"id":118110,"date":"2019-03-16T02:24:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T01:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=118110"},"modified":"2019-03-16T02:35:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T01:35:02","slug":"djokovic-fognini-exit-in-indian-wells-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/djokovic-fognini-exit-in-indian-wells-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic\/Fognini exit in Indian Wells semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak and his partner Fabio Fognini missed on a great opportunity to beat doubles specialists Lukasz Kubot (POL) and Marcelo Melo (BRA) and reach finals at the <a href=\"https:\/\/bnpparibasopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BNP Paribas Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kubot and Melo needed an hour and 40 minutes of action to clinch a 7-6 (5), 2-6, 10-6 win over the Serbian\/Italian pair in a tight contest on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After losing the first set 6-7 (5) to no.6 seeds, Nole and Fabio fought back to win the second set 6-2, breaking their rivals in the first and fifth games.<\/p>\n<p>However, they were second best in the match tie-break, going down 10-6.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (3-1), double faults (3-3), total points won (71-71).<\/p>\n<p>Currently no.221, Novak will climb around 95 spots in the doubles ranking when the new list is released, coming close to his career high (#115 in 2009).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak and Fabio Fognini missed on a great opportunity to beat doubles specialists Lukasz Kubot (POL) and Marcelo Melo (BRA) and reach finals at the BNP Paribas Open. The Serbian\/Italian duo lost a tight contest 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-10 after one hour and 40 minutes of play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":118107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012371,392,101013050,101011267,34],"class_list":["post-118110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-bnp-paribas-open-en","tag-doubles","tag-indian-wells-2019-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-semifinal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118110","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=118110"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118117,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118110\/revisions\/118117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}