{"id":164452,"date":"2023-04-21T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=164452"},"modified":"2023-04-22T14:36:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T12:36:32","slug":"lajovic-ends-novaks-banja-luka-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/lajovic-ends-novaks-banja-luka-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Lajovic ends Novak\u2019s Banja Luka campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nole suffered his third loss this season.<\/p>\n

Novak\u2019s Srpska Open<\/a> campaign was ended on Friday when he fell to compatriot Dusan Lajovic in quarter-final action, 4-6, 6-7 (6), in two hour and 29 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two players had exchanged breaks once in the opener before Lajovic moved 5-4 ahead to give himself the chance to serve for the first set. The no.3 racquet of Serbia saved three break points before closing it out after exactly one hour.<\/p>\n

The second set went to a tie-break. Novak was leading 6-3, but he could not capitalise on the set points. Lajovic won five points in a row to seal the biggest win of his career.<\/p>\n

The 22-time major champion converted just one of his 16 break point chances. He now holds a 17-3 W\/L record in 2023.<\/p>\n

Match statistics: aces (3-3), double faults (2-0), total points won (89-98).<\/p>\n

Novak is searching for his best form ahead of the second Grand Slam event of the season, the Roland Garros.<\/p>\n

The Serbian and world no.1 will head to Rome for the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a> (May 10 – May 21), where he was triumphant six times (2008, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2020 and 2022).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year, he defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final (6-0, 7-6).<\/p>\n

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

Novak\u2019s Srpska Open campaign was ended on Friday when he fell to Dusan Lajovic 4-6, 6-7 in two hours and 29 minutes. The Serbian and world no.1 will head to Rome for the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia (May 10 – May 21), where he was triumphant six times (2008, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2020 and 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":164495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012178,101013131,101011403,101013334],"class_list":["post-164452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-banja-luka-en","tag-quarterfinal-en","tag-srpska-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164452","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=164452"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164512,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164452\/revisions\/164512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}