{"id":1372,"date":"2011-11-05T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T16:26:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T16:22:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:22:19","slug":"nole-falls-to-nishikori-in-basel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-falls-to-nishikori-in-basel\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole falls to Nishikori in Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"arhiva\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/867d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> {nl}<span style=\"color: grey;\">Photo: Zdravko Stambolija<\/span>{nl}{nl}Nole will not play in the Swiss Indoors Basel final. {nl}{nl}<strong>Despite a good start, the top seed was defeated 6-2, 6-7(4), 0-6, in the last four of the ATP World Tour 500 event by Japan\u2019s wild card Kei Nishikori today.<\/strong> {nl}{nl}The semi-final match featured 9 breaks of serve. Nole converted 4 of his 7 break point chances, while the Japanese youngster capitalised on 5 of his 7 opportunities.{nl}{nl}Everything looked perfect at the beginning. Djokovic opened the match in confident fashion on his own serve. He raced to a 5-1 lead with a double break. Nishikori broke back once, but the 24-year-old put the pressure on the Japanese and took the set 6-2.{nl}{nl}The world no.1 was broken in the fifth game of the second set, but he managed to fight back in the eighth to level at 4-all. The set went into a tie-breaker, Nishikori won it 7-4 in 71 minutes.{nl}{nl}A right shoulder injury bothered Nole and affected his performance. Nishikori broke him three times in the deciding third set, sealing the victory in 2 hours and 15 minutes. {nl}{nl}<strong>&#8220;The second set, he was playing great and was fighting&#8230; I have to give credit to my opponent, he was better,&#8221;<\/strong> said Novak. <strong>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t make the most of my opportunities.&#8221;{nl}{nl}&#8221;I changed the technique of my serve a little bit. I was forcing it too much because of the injury I have. I&#8217;ve carried it since the US Open and I&#8217;m still afraid something is going to happen. My rhythm with the serve is not good right now.&#8221;<\/strong>{nl}{nl}The Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open champion will head to Paris where the last ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in 2011 will be held next week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novakdjokovic.rs\/news.php?akcija=vise&amp;id=1371&amp;jezik=2\"><span style=\"color: red;\">More&#8230;<\/span><\/a>{nl}{nl}<strong>&#8220;Recovering is what matters now. I don&#8217;t think in these conditions I will be able to train for the next couple of days. I&#8217;ll see what the team think.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole suffered his fourth defeat of the year when he fell to Japan&#8217;s Kei Nishikori 6-2, 6-7(4), 0-6, in the last four of the Swiss Indoors Basel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011835],"class_list":["post-1372","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\/1372","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=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27170,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/27170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}