{"id":129193,"date":"2020-01-08T09:43:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T08:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=129193"},"modified":"2020-01-09T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T09:08:50","slug":"atp-cup-novak-and-serbia-head-to-sydney-unbeaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/atp-cup-novak-and-serbia-head-to-sydney-unbeaten\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Cup: Novak and Serbia head to Sydney unbeaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Team Serbia completed their group stage performance on Wednesday unbeaten, defeating Chile 2-1 to finish 3-0 in Group A at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atpcup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATP Cup<\/a> in Brisbane.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They will now prepare for the Final 8 in Sydney, where Serbia will play against Canada on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dusan Lajovic gave Serbia the lead by beating Nicolas Jarry 6-2, 7-6 (3), then Novak clinched the tie win with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Cristian Garin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In doubles, Nicolas Jarry and Alejandro Tabilo toppled Nikola Cacic and Viktor Troicki 6-3, 7-6 (2).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSydney&#8217;s got a big Serbian community, hopefully the support can be as good as it was here, even better. It&#8217;s a team competition, it&#8217;s how I personally treat it, and that&#8217;s how it feels for all of us. So having that journey through various places in Australia together feels like a World Cup to us a little bit, which I&#8217;ve never felt,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>\u201cIt&#8217;s quite exciting, to be honest. And now we are a family. We have been together now almost 10 days, and keep on going, so hopefully the success will follow as well.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak will face Denis Shapovalov about 12:00 noon local time (02:00 CET).<\/p>\n<p>Photo: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Serbia completed their group stage performance unbeaten, defeating Chile 2-1 to finish 3-0 in Group A at the ATP Cup in Brisbane. They take on Canada in quarter-finals on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":129160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013097,101013086,101011323,101012262],"class_list":["post-129193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-cup-en","tag-brisbane-en","tag-chile-en","tag-serbia-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129193","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=129193"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129261,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129193\/revisions\/129261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}