{"id":1407,"date":"2011-12-31T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T14:08:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-21T22:12:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T21:12:25","slug":"nole-abu-dhabi-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-abu-dhabi-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole Abu Dhabi champion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/872g_reuters.jpg>{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo: Reuters<\/font>{nl}{nl}<b>Nole is crowned Abu Dhabi champion!{nl}{nl}The world&#8217;s best player outplayed fifth-ranked David Ferrer 6-2, 6-1 on his debut at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition tournament in UAE.<\/b>{nl}{nl}The Serbian showed why he is no. 1 at the moment and played some great tennis with remarkable shots. The message is clear. Nole is fresh and hungry to win as he has been throughout the 2011. {nl}{nl}<b>\u201cThis is the best way to start the 2012 season,\u201d<\/b> Novak said. <b>\u201cI must say I\u2019m really happy with the way I\u2019m playing. Playing against the top players in the world in this way gives me a lot of confidence.\u201d{nl}{nl}\u201cUsually at this stage, you are trying to find your speed on the court, agility, just dynamics of every stroke, but I found it already, to be honest, right away after the first match. &#8230; It\u2019s a great way for me to prepare for Melbourne.\u201d<\/b>{nl}{nl}The prestigious exhibition event which has attracted six of the world&#8217;s top 10 players, was a good warm-up for the new season.{nl}{nl}<a href=\"http:\/\/www.novakdjokovic.rs\/photo.php?jezik=2&#038;id=198\"><font color=\"red\">See photo gallery&#8230;<\/font><\/a>{nl}{nl}Nole began his preparations with victories over Gael Monfils (6-2, 4-6, 6-2) and Roger Federer (6-2, 6-1).{nl}{nl}He will now head  to Australia for the first Grand Slam of the 2012 season, the Australian Open, which starts on Monday, January 16.{nl}{nl}The 24-year-old Serbian star has had a dream run in 2011 with a 70-6 win-loss record and he finished the year with 10 titles, including 3 Grand Slams and a record five ATP World Tour Masters trophies.{nl}{nl}<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ELiljQGnRnY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s best player outplayed fifth-ranked David Ferrer 6-2, 6-1 on his debut at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition tournament in UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012218],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-abu-dhabi-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","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=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27894,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/27894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}