{"id":129012,"date":"2020-01-06T13:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=129012"},"modified":"2020-01-07T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T12:32:45","slug":"serbia-beat-france-for-a-place-in-atp-cup-final-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/serbia-beat-france-for-a-place-in-atp-cup-final-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia beat France for a place in the ATP Cup Final Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak carried Serbia to a place in the ATP Cup Final 8 on Monday night in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>In the first match of the day, Benoit Paire put France ahead by overcoming Dusan Lajovic in three sets, 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Novak was dominant against Gael Monfils. The Serbian star forced a deciding doubles match against France at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atpcup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATP Cup<\/a> in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic defeated Monfils 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 31 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world no.2 saved all nine break points he faced, and converted all three break points he earned, sealing the 16th win in as many meetings with Gael.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (0-5), double faults (5-5), winners (12-21), unforced errors (20-28), total points won (70-55).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak returned to Pat Rafter Arena for the deciding doubles match with Viktor Troicki against Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin. The Serbian pairing recorded a 6-3, 6-7 (5), 10-3 <\/strong><strong>victory, carrying Serbia into the quarter-final stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before quarter-finals, Serbia will play their third tie in Group A, against Chile, on Wednesday at 01:00 CET.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak was dominant on Monday evening against Gael Monfils ( 6-3, 6-2 ) and then recorded a win in the deciding doubles match with Troicki against Mahut\/Roger-Vasselin (6-3, 6-7, 10-3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":129048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013097,101013086,101012251,101012262],"class_list":["post-129012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-cup-en","tag-brisbane-en","tag-france-en","tag-serbia-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129012","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=129012"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129131,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129012\/revisions\/129131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}