{"id":1369,"date":"2011-11-03T16:58:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:58:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T09:10:48","slug":"superb-nole-sets-up-baghdatis-quarterfinal-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/superb-nole-sets-up-baghdatis-quarterfinal-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Superb Nole sets up Baghdatis quarterfinal clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

{nl}Photo: Getty Images<\/font>{nl}{nl}Top-seeded Novak Djokovic enjoyed a speedy win as he hammered Poland\u2019s qualifier Lukasz Kubot 6-1, 6-2 in the second round of the Swiss Indoors Basel on Thursday.{nl}{nl}Nole wrapped up the victory in just 55 minutes to improve to a 66-3 this season.<\/b>{nl}{nl}The 24-year-old Belgrade native breezed through the opening set. He broke Kubot\u2019s serve in the second and sixth games and raced through a service hold to seal the set 6-1 in 26 minutes.{nl}{nl}Nole continued the second set in the same rhythm. He capitalised on his break opportunities in the first and third games and served out the set and match 6-2.{nl}{nl}“Today was a really comfortable match,”<\/b> said the world number one. “I felt good on court. I’m happy to be playing better. This was the goal, I expected that I would struggle with rhythm after not playing for six weeks. But I have no complaints with my game. It was a good performance and I’ll try to do better tomorrow.”{nl}{nl}”I’m not 100 percent and to be honest I don’t expect to get there this week, I would be surprised if I did. I only started serving a few days before my first match and I could tell I was lacking rhythm on second serve. But it was getting better today.”<\/b>{nl}{nl}Match statistics<\/u>: aces (8-0), double faults (2-4), total points won (55-31).{nl}{nl}The 2009 Basel winner will take on world no.59 Marcos Baghdatis in the quarter-finals of the ATP World Tour 500 event on Friday.<\/b> {nl}{nl}The Cypriot beat Swiss qualifier Michael Lammer 7-6(2), 6-7(2), 6-3 on Wednesday.{nl}{nl}Nole won all their five previous encounters, the last was in the third round of Wimbledon 2011 (6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nole wrapped up the victory against Poland’s Lukasz Kubot in just 55 minutes to improve to a 66-3 this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011835],"class_list":["post-1369","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\/1369","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=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27934,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/27934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}