{"id":161195,"date":"2023-01-03T05:29:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T04:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=161195"},"modified":"2023-01-03T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T06:35:00","slug":"novak-sails-through-adelaide-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-sails-through-adelaide-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak sails through Adelaide opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top seed and 2007 Adelaide champion Novak Djokovic opened his 2023 season with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Constant Lestienne at the <a href=\"https:\/\/adelaideinternational.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adelaide International I<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak broke three times from eight opportunities and saved the only break point he faced during the one hour, 14-minute clash.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first H2H meeting between the two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;For the first match I can&#8217;t complain,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;I played very well. I thought the first six games were very competitive and I have never faced him before. He is a counterpuncher, he doesn&#8217;t make too many mistakes. He has a tricky serve, hits his spots. But once I made that break at 3-2 in the first set I thought I stepped it up and played really good tennis for the rest of the match.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak is back in action Down Under for the first time since he won the 2021 Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a place in the ATP 250 event quarter-finals, the Belgrade native will play against another Frenchman Quentin Halys (1-0 H2H, ATP no.64).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole successfully started his 2023 season on Tuesday with a straightforward 6-3, 6-2 win over Constant Lestienne of France at the Adelaide International I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":161193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013173,101013309,101012178,101012354,101011626],"class_list":["post-161195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-adelaide-en","tag-adelaide-international-en","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-australia-en","tag-round-1-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161195","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=161195"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161245,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161195\/revisions\/161245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}