{"id":27985,"date":"2012-04-22T14:25:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=27985"},"modified":"2012-04-23T08:58:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T07:58:14","slug":"nole-runner-up-in-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-runner-up-in-monte-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole runner-up in Monte Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Nole pora\u017een u finalu Monte Karla\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Novak_MonteCarlo2012_08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nole has finished runner-up in his second final at the Monte Carlo Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-time defending champion Rafael Nadal has won his eighth straight title at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monte-carlorolexmasters.com\/\">Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters<\/a> tournament when he beat the world no.1 Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-1 in 78 minutes on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Rafa played well and deserved to win today,&#8221;<\/strong> said Novak at the runner-up trophy presentation. <strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m still very happy to reach the finals for the second time. This is one of my favourite events at the most beautiful centre court in the world.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole was also runner-up at the event to Rafael Nadal in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Serbian will get 600 ATP points for reaching the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Novak is his hometown tournament, Serbia Open.\u00a0 The ATP World Tour 250 event will be played in Belgrade from April 30 until May 6, where the two-time champion will defend the title he won beating Feliciano Lopez 7-6 (4), 6-2.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: gray;\">Photo: Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9-hWL0GGB08\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 fell to second-seeded Rafael Nadal in Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters final 3-6, 1-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":27958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012222],"class_list":["post-27985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-monte-carlo-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27985","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=27985"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28521,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27985\/revisions\/28521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}