{"id":1214,"date":"2011-03-14T04:10:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T03:10:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-21T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:53:38","slug":"djokovic-express-into-third-round-of-indian-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/djokovic-express-into-third-round-of-indian-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic Express into third round of Indian Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/855c.jpg>{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Nole wears a bandage on his knee with &#8220;Support to Japan&#8221; written on it during his match against Andrey Golubev (Photo: AP)<\/font>{nl}{nl}World no.3 Novak Djokovic took 59 minutes to dismiss world no.39 Kazakhstan\u2019s Andrey Golubev 6-0, 6-4 in his second-round opening match at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells (hard, $3,645,000).{nl}{nl}Novak served first, and started strongly against Golubev with a love hold. The 23-year-old Belgrade native broke his opponent\u2019s serve three times and wrapped up the first set with ease in just 21 minutes. Djokovic won 80% of the points, and dropped just two points on his own serve.{nl}{nl}Golubev made a break in the opening game of the second set and held for 2-0 lead. The 2008 champion broke back in the sixth game with aggressive play at the net to level the result to 3-3. Novak broke once again at the end of the second set to secure his place in the third round.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;It was great start of the tournament,&#8221;<\/b> said Novak. <b>&#8220;With those first matches you don&#8217;t know what to expect. I really tested myself today, because I had Golubev, who is coming up from a big Davis Cup wins, and he&#8217;s a very good player. He showed that in the second set. He started hitting the ball from the baseline really hard. But I was in the control most of the match. I am really happy with the way I was playing. I want to keep on moving.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}Novak commented on the surface in Indian Wells.{nl}{nl}<b>\u201eThe ball bounces very high. The ball get a little too big, fluffy, and it&#8217;s quite slow, especially during the night. But I like it. The speed of the surface can compare to the one in Australia, for example, so it&#8217;s quite suitable to my game.\u201c<\/b>{nl}{nl}Nole next faces no.31 seed Ernests Gulbis. The Latvian beat Taiwanese Yen-Hsun Lu in three sets 6-7(1), 7-6(7), 6-1. {nl}{nl}Djokovic leads their head-to-heads 3-1. The best Serbian tennis player won their last encounter in Basel 2010, 6-4, 6-2.{nl}{nl}Nole and Viktor play their doubles second round match on Monday. They will challenge no.7 seeds Lukasz Kubot (POL) and Oliver Marach (AUT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.3 Novak Djokovic took 59 minutes to dismiss world no.39 Kazakhstan\u2019s Andrey Golubev 6-0, 6-4 in his second-round opening match at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells (hard, $3,645,000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011955],"class_list":["post-1214","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\/1214","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=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27864,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/27864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}