{"id":122167,"date":"2019-06-25T17:16:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T15:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=122167"},"modified":"2019-06-25T22:50:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T20:50:06","slug":"novak-beats-garin-in-the-boodles-exhibition-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-beats-garin-in-the-boodles-exhibition-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak beats Garin in the Boodles exhibition opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak returned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboodles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Boodles<\/a> tournament, the traditional Wimbledon warm-up event at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire, to finalise preparations for the defence of his Championships title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic clinched his first win on grass this year beating world no.35, Chilean Cristian Garin, 6-2, 6-4 on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole made a confident start, breaking his rival twice for a 4-0 advantage, and went on to take the first set.<\/p>\n<p>Garin broke first in the second set to clinch a 4-2 lead, but the Serbian star responded strong by winning the next four games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The world no.1 will play his second match on grass on Wednesday at 15:30 CET, when he faces Canadian Denis Shapovalov.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Kevin Palmer\/The Irish Independent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole returned to The Boodles tournament, the traditional Wimbledon warm-up event at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire, to finalise preparations for the defence of his Championships title. He clinched his first win on grass this year beating Chilean Cristian Garin 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":122154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[101012333,101011442,101011441],"class_list":["post-122167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-tennis","tag-exhibition-en","tag-stoke-park","tag-the-boodles-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122167","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=122167"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122211,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122167\/revisions\/122211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}