{"id":153059,"date":"2022-04-12T19:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=153059"},"modified":"2022-04-12T20:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:06:38","slug":"davidovich-fokina-downs-novak-in-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/davidovich-fokina-downs-novak-in-monte-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Davidovich Fokina downs Novak in Monte Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic came into the <a href=\"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/a> second round carrying a 2-0 H2H record over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, but 46th-ranked Spaniard prevailed in a two hour, 55-minute battle on Tuesday on the Monaco clay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Davidovich Fokina stormed to a 4-1 lead in the opening set with a double break. Novak broke back once, but the Malaga native converted another chance to seal it.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic was 2-4 down in the second set, but managed to force a tie-break, which he won by a thin margin to level the contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard recovered quickly from the disappointment and broke Novak three times in the decisive set for a 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1 final score and his biggest career win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t like the way I felt physically in the third set. I just ran out of gas completely. Just couldn&#8217;t really stay in the rally with him. If you can&#8217;t stay in the rally, not feeling your legs on the clay, it&#8217;s mission impossible,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to congratulate Alejandro. He was the better player. He managed to find a better rhythm in the first two sets. I expected this match to be really tough, physical battle, and that&#8217;s what it was. Unfortunately I&#8217;m on the shorter end of the stick, and my week ends here. I have to be optimistic, need to keep going and build my form for Roland Garros where I want to peak.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (1-0), double faults (5-5), winners (30-38), unforced errors (45-36), total points won (103-115).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak is heading to Belgrade, where the Serbia Open, an ATP 250 clay-court event, will be held next week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Davidovich Fokina prevailed in a two hour, 55-minute battle on Tuesday, recording a 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1 victory to reach the third round. Novak is heading to Belgrade, where the Serbia Open, an ATP 250 clay-court event, will be held next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":153048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011267,101012331,101011181,101011697],"class_list":["post-153059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-monaco-en","tag-monte-carlo-rolex-masters-en","tag-second-round-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153059","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=153059"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153083,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153059\/revisions\/153083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}