{"id":1368,"date":"2011-11-01T20:24:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T09:11:19","slug":"basel-nole-wins-in-return-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/basel-nole-wins-in-return-to-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Basel: Nole wins in return to action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/867b.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photo: AP<\/font>{nl}{nl}Nole made a winning return from a six-week break he needed in order to recover from a back injury.{nl}{nl}<b>The world no.1 defeated no.47 in the ATP rankings Belgian Xavier Malisse 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in 2 hours and 11 minutes in the first round of the Swiss Indoors Basel tournament on Tuesday. <\/b>{nl}{nl}Novak made an early break and held for 3-0 lead. He broke the Belgian again in the eighth game to take the set 6-2.{nl}{nl}Mallise put up some solid resistance in the second set. He broke Nole in the ninth game and won the set 6-4.{nl}{nl}The 24-year-old Belgrade native quickly regrouped and raced to 3-0 in the decisive third set. He was serving for match at 5-3, but double-faulted on a break point to hand the unseeded Belgian a break back. However, Novak managed to break his opponent\u2019s serve once again in the 12th game using the first of three match points to clinch a victory in his first match since September 18.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;I hoped that we would not get to the tie-break,&#8221;<\/b> Nole said. <b>&#8220;It\u2019s really unpredictable in the third set tie-break who\u2019s going to win. He made a couple of mistakes. I made some returns in. Overall, it wasn\u2019t a great match for me. I played many, many better matches this year than this one, but under the circumstances, for me the most important thing now is that I feel good on the court physically.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}The top-ranked Serbian star now has a 65-3 record this year. {nl}{nl}The Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open champion will face a qualifier in the second round on Thursday. It will be either world no.64 Poland\u2019s Lukasz Kubot or no.96 ranked German Tobias Kamke.{nl}{nl}<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v0oeomCVuR8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 defeated no.47 in the ATP rankings Belgian Xavier Malisse 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in 2 hours and 11 minutes in the first round of the Swiss Indoors Basel tournament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011835],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-basel-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27935,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/27935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}