{"id":128840,"date":"2020-01-04T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T13:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=128840"},"modified":"2020-01-06T12:58:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T11:58:54","slug":"novak-and-lajovic-clinch-first-victory-for-serbia-in-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-and-lajovic-clinch-first-victory-for-serbia-in-brisbane\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak and Lajovic clinch first victory for Serbia in Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.2 Novak Djokovic and 34th ranked Dusan Lajovic both powered their way to singles wins for Team Serbia on Saturday at the inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atpcup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATP Cup<\/a> in Brisbane.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the opening match, Dusan battled from a set down to defeat South Africa&#8217;s Lloyd Harris 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3, giving Novak the opportunity to clinch their ATP Cup tie against Kevin Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Nole started with confidence against former world no.5 and broke early for 3-0, but Anderson broke back to force a tie-break. Novak won it 7-5 for a one-set lead.<\/p>\n<p>We saw another tie-break in the second set, the 32-year-old Belgrade native closed it 8-6 to propel Serbia to first win at Pat Rafter Arena.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty pleased with my game. To be honest, considering the fact that he was playing at the very high level, I thought it was a fantastic match,&#8221;<\/strong> said Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>Novak now leads his ATP H2H series against Anderson 9-2.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Cacic\/Viktor Troicki duo beat Raven Klaasen\/Ruan Roelofse 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next rival for Serbia is France, on Monday, January 6. Lajovic will take on Benoit Paire (8:30 CET), followed by Novak vs Gael Monfils and the doubles match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>France outplayed Chile 2-1 earlier today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic and Dusan Lajovic both powered their way to singles wins for Team Serbia against South Africa on Saturday at the inaugural ATP Cup in Brisbane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":128837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013097,101012354,101013086,303],"class_list":["post-128840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-cup-en","tag-australia-en","tag-brisbane-en","tag-group-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128840","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=128840"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128909,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128840\/revisions\/128909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}