{"id":1211,"date":"2011-03-12T03:31:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T02:31:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-21T19:53:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:53:48","slug":"indian-wells-novak-vs-golubev-in-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/indian-wells-novak-vs-golubev-in-r2\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Wells: Novak vs Golubev in R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/851.jpg> {nl}{nl}The first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament of the season, BNP Paribas Open ($3,645,000), began on Thursday, March 10, and will be held till March 20. {nl} {nl}The best Serbian tennis player and 2008 champion Novak Djokovic is third seed and has a first-round BYE. {nl}{nl}<b>He will open his campaign against world no.39 Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan who beat German Florian Mayer 6-2, 6-1.<\/b>{nl} {nl}Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament are: {nl} {nl}<u>3rd round:<\/u> Ernests Gulbis (LAT,31), Yen-Hsun Lu (Taiwan){nl}<u>4th round:<\/u> Viktor Troicki (SRB,16), Michael Llodra (FRA,24){nl}<u>Quarter-finals:<\/u> Andy Roddick (USA,8), Jurgen Melzer (AUT,10), Richard Gasquet (FRA,18), John Isner (USA,30){nl}<u>Semi-finals:<\/u> Roger Federer (SUI,2), Tomas Berdych (CZE,7), Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI,12), Mardy Fish (USA,13)&#8230;    {nl} {nl}Rafael Nadal (ESP,1), Robin Soderling (SWE,4), Andy Murray (GBR,5), David Ferrer (ESP,6), Fernando Verdasco (ESP,9)&#8230; are in the top half of the draw. {nl} {nl}Last year Nole reached fourth round. He lost to eventual champion Ivan Ljubicic 5-7, 3-6.{nl}{nl}&#8211;{nl}{nl}Novak&#8217;s past results in Indian Wells:{nl}{nl}2010 &#8211; fourth round (lost to Ljubicic){nl}2009 &#8211; quarter-finals (lost to Roddick){nl}2008 &#8211; title (defeated Fish in the finals){nl}2007 &#8211; finals (lost to Nadal){nl}2006 &#8211; first round (lost to Benneteau){nl}{nl}&#8211;{nl}{nl}Nole and his Davis Cup teammate Viktor Troicki are joining forces in the doubles competition.{nl}{nl}<b>They advanced to the second round with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over Argentine duo Juan Ignacio Chela and Juan Monaco. <\/b>{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Troicki will next play against no.7 seeds Lukasz Kubot (POL) and Oliver Marach (AUT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draw has been made for the BNP Paribas Open ($ 3,645,000). The first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament of the season begins on Thursday, March 10, and will be held till March 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011955],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-indian-wells-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","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=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27867,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/27867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}