{"id":128600,"date":"2019-12-21T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T14:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=128600"},"modified":"2019-12-30T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T10:24:22","slug":"novak-takes-third-place-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/novak-takes-third-place-in-abu-dhabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak takes third place in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak won the third place at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship after defeating Karen Khachanov 7-5, 6-3 in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole and Karen delighted the crowds, delivering some high-quality tennis.<\/p>\n<p>The world no.2 put pressure on the Russian&#8217;s serve early on, breaking him in the second game. However, Khachanov broke back immediately and held to level. Djokovic got another break in game 12 to take the opening set.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian carried the momentum into the second set and was soon up 4-1. Novak sealed his victory on his first match point to secure third place in the championship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The four-time former winner of the MWTC will kick-off his 2020 season at the inaugural ATP Cup, to be held from 3-12 January, in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>24 countries are each assigned to one of six groups and three host cities.<\/p>\n<p>Top seed Serbia, led by Novak Djokovic, will play at the Pat Rafter Arena in Brisbane in Group A with South Africa (January 4), France (January 6) and Chile (January 8). Dusan Lajovic, Viktor Troicki, Nikola Cacic and Nikola Milojevic are also on the team.<\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole January 2020 desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Calendar_January2020.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak won the third place in Abu Dhabi after defeating Karen Khachanov 7-5, 6-3. The four-time former winner of the MWTC will kick-off his 2020 season at the inaugural ATP Cup, to be held from 3-12 January, in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":128598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101012218,101012333,101013098,101012199],"class_list":["post-128600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-abu-dhabi-en","tag-exhibition-en","tag-mubadala-world-tennis-championship-2019-en","tag-uae-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128600","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=128600"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128690,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128600\/revisions\/128690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}