{"id":144400,"date":"2021-05-29T16:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T14:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=144400"},"modified":"2021-05-31T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T08:37:15","slug":"nole-claims-belgrade-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-claims-belgrade-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole claims Belgrade Open title!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nole is the 2021 Belgrade Open singles champion!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic claimed his 83rd career singles title and his third crown in Belgrade, with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Alex Molcan (ATP #255) in 88 minutes on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top seed won his first ATP Tour title on home soil since 2011. In 2009 and 2011 he emerged victorious at the Serbia Open.<\/p>\n<p>Novak came back twice from a break down in the opening set to take it 6-4 against the Slovakian qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>The second set went with serve until the sixth game, when the Serbian star broke Molcan for a 4-2 lead. The first-time ATP tour finalist fought back immediately, but Novak converted his break point chance for the sixth time in the match and served it out, improving to a 20-3 record on the season.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8JVvog8OXIY\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a while since I last played here in front of the crowd. It is totally a different feeling to be holding a trophy once again after 10 years. It is really special and couldn&#8217;t be a better leadup to Roland Garros,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said.<\/p>\n<p>Novak will next head to Paris, where he will play against American Tennys Sandgren in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland Garros<\/a> first round (Tuesday).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Starsport \/ Srdjan Stevanovic<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak claimed his 83rd career singles title and his third crown in Belgrade, following a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Alex Molcan in 88 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":144419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012319,101013189,101011061,101010437,101012262,101011456],"class_list":["post-144400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-belgrade-en","tag-belgrade-open-en","tag-champion-en","tag-final-en","tag-serbia-en","tag-title-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144400","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=144400"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144531,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144400\/revisions\/144531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}