{"id":166957,"date":"2024-03-12T05:06:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T04:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=166957"},"modified":"2024-03-31T12:38:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T10:38:53","slug":"nardi-stuns-novak-in-the-third-round-of-indian-wells-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nardi-stuns-novak-in-the-third-round-of-indian-wells-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Nardi stuns Novak in the third round of Indian Wells Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lucky loser Luca Nardi caused a major upset at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Monday, when he beat world no.1 Novak Djokovic in three sets &#8211; 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted two hours and 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian stunned the top seed and five-time former <a href=\"https:\/\/bnpparibasopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BNP Paribas Open<\/a> champion producing a stunning display of confidence and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Nardi brought his very best tennis in the first and third sets to notch the biggest win of his career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Congrats to him, particulary in third set he played some great tennis. He moves well, he is very talented. He got into the main draw as a lucky loser so he didn&#8217;t have anything to lose. He played great and deserves to win,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said in the post-match interview. <strong>&#8220;I was more surprised with my level. My level was really, really bad. I made some really terrible unforced errors and played defensive tennis. He played more free and aggressive than I did. <\/strong><strong>Those two things coming together, he&#8217;s having a great day, I&#8217;m having a really bad day, and the result is a negative outcome for me.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-6), double faults (1-7), winners (18-36), unforced errors (31-41), total points won (93-92)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nardi&#8217;s fourth-round opponent in the California desert will be 17th seed Tommy Paul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole 2024 April desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Calendar_April2024.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky loser Luca Nardi caused a huge upset on Monday in the desert. Top seed and five-time former champion Djokovic was eliminated from Indian Wells in the third round by the unseeded Italian (4-6, 6-3, 3-6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":166945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013389,101011610,101011267,1039,101012292],"class_list":["post-166957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-bnp-paribas-open-2024-en","tag-indian-wells-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-third-round","tag-usa-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166957","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=166957"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166992,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166957\/revisions\/166992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}