{"id":126292,"date":"2019-10-08T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T08:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=126292"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:33:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T08:33:47","slug":"novak-and-filip-beat-rg-champions-in-shanghai-doubles-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-and-filip-beat-rg-champions-in-shanghai-doubles-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak and Filip beat RG champions in Shanghai doubles opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak Djokovic and his fellow Serbian, Filip Krajinovic, advanced to the second round at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shanghairolexmasters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolex Shanghai Masters<\/a> with a 6-3, 3-6, 10-3 victory against no.5 seeds and French Open winners, Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies, on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak and Filip made a break in the fourth game of the opening set. Their German rivals capitalised on a break point they earned in the second set to force a decider, but it was Djokovic\/Krajinovic duo who grabbed the win following a dominant display in match tie-break.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They will next take on either British pairing Jamie Murray\/Neal Skupski or Chinese wild cards Xin Gao\/Zhe Li.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top seed and defending champion in singles begins his quest for 34th Masters title in the second round against Canadian Denis Shapovalov (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak and his fellow Serbian, Filip Krajinovic, advanced to the second round at the Rolex Shanghai Masters with a 6-3, 3-6, 10-3 victory against fifth-seeds and 2019 French Open winners, Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":126288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,392,310,101011267,101013094],"class_list":["post-126292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-doubles","tag-first-round","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rolex-shanghai-masters-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126292","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=126292"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126302,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126292\/revisions\/126302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}