{"id":169035,"date":"2025-04-09T18:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=169035"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:34:17","slug":"novak-out-of-monte-carlo-masters-in-opening-match-of-clay-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-out-of-monte-carlo-masters-in-opening-match-of-clay-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak out of Monte Carlo Masters in opening match of clay season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth seed and two-time champion is out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/a> in his opening match of the clay-court season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alejandro Tabilo, ranked 32 in the world, benefitted from a below-par performance from Novak Djokovic and held his nerve in the critical moments to earn a 6-3, 6-4 second-round win at the Monte-Carlo Country Club on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted one hour and 26 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Chilean left-hander also defeated the 24-time Grand Slam titlist on clay at the 2024 Italian Open and has now won both meetings against the former world no.1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI expected myself at least to have put in a decent performance. Not like this. It was horrible,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>\u201cI did not have high expectations. I knew I\u2019m going to have a tough opponent and I knew I\u2019m going to probably play pretty bad. But this bad, I didn\u2019t expect.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match stats: aces (3-2), double faults (2-2), winners (18-16), unforced errors (29-16), total points won (49-66).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak is set to return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mutua Madrid Open<\/a> at La Caja M\u00e1gica, Madrid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This will mark his 13th appearance in the capital of Spain, where he has claimed the trophy three times (2011, 2016, 2019).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth seed and two-time former champion is out of the Monte Carlo Masters in his opening match of the clay-court season as Alejandro Tabilo earn a standout 6-3, 6-4 second-round win in one hour and 26 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":169031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,405,101011267,101012331,101012329,101013052,113],"class_list":["post-169035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defeat","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-monaco-en","tag-monte-carlo-en","tag-rolex-monte-carlo-masters-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169035","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=169035"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169042,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169035\/revisions\/169042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}