{"id":128004,"date":"2019-11-20T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=128004"},"modified":"2019-11-20T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:43:09","slug":"davis-cup-by-rakuten-finals-novak-and-filip-score-win-for-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/davis-cup-by-rakuten-finals-novak-and-filip-score-win-for-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals: Serbia-Japan 3:0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia kicked-off their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daviscupfinals.com\/results\/A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals<\/a> campaign with a 3-0 win over Japan on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Filip Krajinovic and Novak Djokovic both won their singles matches to secure Serbia&#8217;s opening victory in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the first match of the day Krajinovic beat Yuichi Sugita (ATP #102) 6-2, 6-4, then Novak cruised past Yoshihito Nishioka (ATP #78) 6-1, 6-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki defeated Ben McLachlan and Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) in the doubles rubber.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serbia will play their second tie against France on Thursday at 11:00 CET in a battle for the top of the group standings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the revamped Davis Cup format debuting this year, teams play two singles and a doubles in each tie, with the group winners advancing to the knockout stage along with the two best second-place finishers in the six groups.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia comfortably got past Japan in Group A. Filip Krajinovic beat Yuichi Sugita 6-2, 6-4, then Novak cruised past Yoshihito Nishioka 6-1, 6-2. Tipsarevic\/Troicki duo defeated McLachlan\/Uchiyama pairing to complete a 3-0 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":128001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013099,101013100,101012210,101012203,101012262],"class_list":["post-128004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-davis-cup-2019-en","tag-davis-cup-by-rakuten-finals-en","tag-japan-en","tag-madrid-en","tag-serbia-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128004","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=128004"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128044,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128004\/revisions\/128044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}