{"id":1262,"date":"2011-05-11T13:15:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:15:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:12:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:12:44","slug":"novak-crushes-kubot-in-rome-opener-6-0-6-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-crushes-kubot-in-rome-opener-6-0-6-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak crushes Kubot in Rome opener: 6-0, 6-3!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/859b.jpg>{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo: AP<\/font>{nl}{nl}<b>Second-seeded Novak Djokovic continued his great run of form with a 6-0, 6-3  victory over Poland&#8217;s Lukasz Kubot on Wednesday to advance into the third round at the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Rome.<\/b>{nl}{nl}Another great performance from Nole! He opened his Rome campaign in style, crushing world no.141 in 67 minutes.{nl}{nl}Djokovic made a triple break in the opening set for 6-0.{nl}{nl}A break in the second game of the second set was enough for the Serb to win the set and match 6-3.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;It is a great way to start,&#8221;<\/b> said Novak in his post-match interview. <b>&#8220;It is always great to have a straight set win and spend less time on the courts and save some energy for coming rounds.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}Match statistics: aces (0-1), double faults (0-3), winners (21-14), unforced errors (10-26).{nl}{nl}Djokovic converted 4 of 5 break points, and didn&#8217;t give a single break point opportunity to his opponent.{nl}{nl}The 23-year-old Belgrade native has won all six tournaments he has played this year \u2013 the Australian Open, Dubai, Indian Wells, Miami, Belgrade and Madrid.{nl}{nl}He now has a 33-0 mark this year which is the longest win streak to start off an ATP World Tour season after John McEnroe\u2019s 42-0 start in 1984.{nl}{nl}Nole has an opportunity to take over the no.1 position in the ATP Rankings next week, if he wins the title and Nadal loses before the semi-finals. {nl}{nl}<b>\u201cMy ambition or goal is to be no.1 and my dream is to win Wimbledon so these are two things that I always wanted to do,\u201d<\/b> said Novak on Tuesday. <b>\u201cThe no.1 ranking is obviously getting closer but it still takes a lot of work to get there. If I do get there in a couple of weeks or months or a couple of years, it does not matter. I will try to keep working to get to this position.\u201d <\/b>{nl}{nl}The world no.2 will next face no.14 seed Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka who beat no.79 ranked Italian Filippo Volandri 6-1, 3-6, 6-2.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;He has been around for many years and is a great all-round player,&#8221;<\/b> Djokovic praised his next rival. <b>&#8220;I played against him in the finals here in 2008 and he likes this court and these conditions &#8212; it is going to be a tough match.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}They have met ten times, Nole leads 8-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second-seeded Novak Djokovic continued his great run of form with a 6-0, 6-3  victory over Poland&#8217;s Lukasz Kubot on Wednesday to advance into the third round at the Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011918],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-rome-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","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=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28057,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/28057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}