{"id":160963,"date":"2022-12-23T20:49:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=160963"},"modified":"2022-12-23T20:54:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:54:54","slug":"dubai-world-tennis-league-nole-beats-ofner-in-the-champions-tiebreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/dubai-world-tennis-league-nole-beats-ofner-in-the-champions-tiebreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai World Tennis League: Nole beats Ofner in the Champions tiebreak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novak recorded his first victory for the Team Falcons at the World Tennis League.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 21-time Grand Slam winner defeated Sebastian Ofner 6-7 (5), 6-0, 10-7, at Coca-Cola Arena, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Austrian had stepped in for Felix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n

After Ofner clinched the opening set in a tie-break, Djokovic stormed through the second set by breaking three times. The encounter was decided in the Champions tiebreak. Novak was leading 5-2, then the Austrian rallied to level at 7-all. The Serbian start won the last three points to seal the win.<\/p>\n

Earlier on the day, the mixed doubles was won by Sania Mirza and Holger Rune against Paula Badosa and Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 4-6, 10-5, then Iga Swiatek beat Aryna Sabalenka 6-1, 6-3 in the women’s singles.<\/p>\n

Final on Saturday will be contested by the Kites and the Hawks.<\/p>\n

The exhibition was a great promotion of tennis, as well as a good preparation and warm up for Adelaide and Melbourne where Nole will kick off the 2023 season.<\/p>\n

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Novak will make his return to Australian soil in Adelaide (ATP 250), at the Adelaide International 1<\/a> from 1 to 8 January. In 2007, Djokovic beat Australian Chris Guccione 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-4 to win the Adelaide International tennis tournament.<\/p>\n

The first Grand Slam event in 2023 will take place in Melbourne from January 16 to January 29. Novak lifted the Australian Open<\/a> trophy for an unprecedented ninth time in 2021, following a 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Daniil Medvedev in the final. He missed the 2022 edition due to the COVID-19-related Australian border restrictions.<\/p>\n

Photos: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novak recorded his first win for the Team Falcons. He defeated Austrian Sebastian Ofner 6-7 (5), 6-0, 10-7, at Coca-Cola Arena, in Dubai. The exhibition was a great promotion of tennis, as well as a good preparation and warm up for Adelaide and Melbourne where Nole will kick off his 2023 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":160943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[101012197,101012333,101012199,101013306],"class_list":["post-160963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-tennis","tag-dubai-en","tag-exhibition-en","tag-uae-en","tag-world-tennis-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160963","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=160963"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160975,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160963\/revisions\/160975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}