{"id":1252,"date":"2011-04-30T14:41:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T13:41:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:20:34","slug":"tipsarevic-withdraws-novak-vs-lopez-in-serbia-open-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/tipsarevic-withdraws-novak-vs-lopez-in-serbia-open-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipsarevic withdraws, Novak vs Lopez in Serbia Open finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/857u.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Novak Djokovic (Photo: Srdjan Stevanovic)<\/font>{nl}{nl}Australian Open champion and Serbia Open top seed Novak Djokovic is the first ATP World Tour 250 event finalist.{nl}{nl}The all-Serbian semi-final was on schedule on Saturday evening, but no.7 seed Janko Tipsarevic was forced to withdraw from the tournament with a right leg injury. The world no.36 will skip Madrid Masters next week.{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cBad news. Janko had to pull out from tonight&#8217;s semi final match,because of muscle injury. I sincerely hope he will manage to recover for the rest of the clay court season. Final is tomorrow at 16h. I will try to get the tittle back where it belongs,and that is SERBIA,\u201d<\/b> Novak wrote on his Facebook page.{nl}{nl}The doubles semi-final match between no.3 seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel, and a Czecho-Slovakian duo  Frantisek Cermak\/Fillip Polasek will be played in the evening programme instead.{nl}{nl}Top seeds Nenad Zimonjic and Marcel Granollers take on fourth-seeded Austrian combination Oliver Marach\/Alexander Peya in the second match of the day.{nl}{nl}Djokovic will face world no.37 Feliciano Lopez on Sunday at 4pm.{nl}{nl}The Spaniard won the battle of the 29-year-olds in the first match on Center court. He defeated world no.80 Italian Filippo Volandri in straight sets 7-6(3), 6-2 in 1 hour and 35 minutes.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Lopez will meet for the fourth time. Nole has won all three previous matches, the last was in the second round of Dubai 2011.{nl}{nl}Nole will have the chance to triumph at his hometown tournament for the second time. He lifted the trophy at the inaugural Serbia Open 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Open champion and Serbia Open top seed Novak Djokovic is the first ATP World Tour 250 event finalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010365],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-serbia-open-2011-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","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=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28068,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/28068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}