{"id":150121,"date":"2021-11-15T15:57:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T14:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=150121"},"modified":"2021-11-15T23:38:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:38:56","slug":"novak-makes-winning-start-at-nitto-atp-finals-in-turin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-makes-winning-start-at-nitto-atp-finals-in-turin\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak makes winning start at Nitto ATP Finals in Turin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak made a winning start to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nittoatpfinals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> at the Pala Alpitour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic got his Turin season finale campaign off to a good start against Casper Ruud, with a 7:6 (4), 6:2 victory in his opening round-robin match on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian top seed defeated the Norway&#8217;s no.8 seed in one hour and 30 minutes and is now 2-0 in H2H meetings against the youngster from Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>Novak got broken in the first game of the match, but regrouped quickly and found his rhythm to break back and level at 3-all. Djokovic failed to convert two break\/set points at 5-4* but shortly afterwards he went on to win a tie-breaker 7-4, clinching the last two points on Ruud&#8217;s serve.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time ATP Final champion sailed smoothly through the second set, breaking his rival twice, in the first and fifth games.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (10-9), double faults (0-4), winners (23-23), unforced errors (13-20), total points won (72-50).<\/p>\n<p>Novak is pursuing his sixth trophy at the prestigious event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic will play his second round robin match on Wednesday (14:00 CET) against fifth seed Andrey Rublev. It will be their first career meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Russian beat Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 4) 6-4, 6-4.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each win in the group stage brings 200 ATP points.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak got his Turin season finale campaign off to a good start against Casper Ruud, with a 7:6, 6:2 victory in his opening round-robin match on Monday. The Serbian star moved to 1-0 in Green Group, as well as Andrey Rublev (RUS, 5) who outplayed Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":150118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011310,101013216,101011825,101013027,101013035,101011545,101013205],"class_list":["post-150121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1500-en","tag-casper-ruud","tag-italy","tag-nitto-atp-finals-en","tag-rr1-en","tag-season-finale","tag-turin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150121","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=150121"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150215,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150121\/revisions\/150215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}