{"id":1183,"date":"2011-01-27T15:47:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T14:47:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:59:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:59:36","slug":"noles-interview-after-victory-over-federer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/noles-interview-after-victory-over-federer\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole\u2019s interview after victory over Federer"},"content":{"rendered":"
{nl}{nl}Exactly three years ago, on January 27, 2008, Nole defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the finals of Australian Open, and lifted his first Grand Slam trophy.{nl}{nl}On Sunday, January 30, the world no.3 will again fight for the title on Rod Laver Arena . He earned that opportunity with a fantastic 7-6(3), 7-5, 6-4 semifinal victory over four-time defending champion Roger Federer.{nl}{nl}“Overall, it was a great performance,” <\/b>said Djokovic after the match. “I’m very happy with the way I played. I was feeling extreme pressure. It’s one of the best matches I’ve played in a while. I had to take my chances. Second set I was a break up and after 20 minutes I was 5-2 down. If I had lost that set God knows what direction the match would go.\u201d<\/b>{nl}{nl}“I stayed very calm and focused after losing my serve at 4-3 (in the third set) and managed to re-break and then serve it out really well. It’s a great and encouraging fact that I can rely on my serve in the important moments; that gives you a little bit of the relief and advantage. I’m just happy to overcome the tough moments to play my best tennis.” <\/b>{nl}{nl}“Already (being in the) finals is a great result, great achievement,”<\/b> added Nole. “I want to win it again. I believe I can. Hopefully I can pull up the best tennis. This is the only Grand Slam I won, and again, this year I’ve been playing great, losing only a set before the finals. That shows that this surface is really suited to my game.”<\/b>{nl}{nl}The second semi-final match between fifth seed and last year’s runner-up Andy Murray and Spaniard David Ferrer is scheduled on Saturday.{nl}{nl}Looking ahead to the clash, Novak said: “Maybe you would put Murray as a slight favourite, but Ferrer has been showing maybe his best tennis on hard-courts lately. He’s playing well, so he’s going to give his best. Definitely it’s going to be interesting to see who is going to prevail. I look forward to watching the match from my bed with some popcorn.”<\/b>{nl}{nl}Federer praised Nole\u2019s performance:{nl}{nl}“I thought he played a great match. I didn’t think I played bad myself, so it was a match played at a very high intensity for a long period of time. Clearly it’s disappointing to lose, but what to do if he plays well on the big points, and potentially maybe I didn’t. It was a tough match. I think he managed the conditions well. He deserved to win at the end.”<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Overall, it was a great performance,” said Djokovic after the match. “I’m very happy with the way I played. I was feeling extreme pressure. It’s one of the best matches I’ve played in a while.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010220],"class_list":["post-1183","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\/1183","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=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26954,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/26954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}