{"id":35629,"date":"2012-10-02T13:20:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T11:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=35629"},"modified":"2012-10-05T15:07:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T13:07:37","slug":"nole-downs-berrer-in-beijing-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-downs-berrer-in-beijing-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole downs Berrer in Beijing opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

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World no.2 Novak Djokovic knocked out no.123 in the ATP rankings Michael Berrer\u00a06-1, 6-7(3), 6-2 in 1 hour and 58 minutes on Tuesday at the 2012 \u00a0China Open<\/a> in Beijing in his first match since finishing runner-up in the last month’s US Open final.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nole hit 6 aces and converted 4 of his 7 break point opportunities to improve to a 61-11 match record on the season.<\/p>\n

“In the first set I felt that I could return a lot of serves, which I did, and played a really good set,”<\/strong> said Djokovic. “Then I had a couple of break points in the first game of the second. He stayed with some big serves. That’s when I think he changed his tactics and his service games. He started mixing up more, and I had tough time to read it. I made little adjustment on the return, came closer to the line, and it paid off.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Five-time Grand Slam champion goes onto face world no.50 Carlos Berlocq in the second round, on Wednesday at 19.30 local time. The Argentine beat Australian Marinko Matosevic in three sets 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n

Novak won their only previous encounter in the second round of the 2011 US Open
\n6-0, 6-0, 6-2.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Serbian star has a perfect 10-0 event record and is bidding for his third title, having lifted the trophy in 2009 (d. Cilic) and 2010 (d. Ferrer).<\/p>\n

Photo: ChinaFotoPress<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novak opened his 2012 China Open campaign with a 6-1, 6-7(3), 6-2 win over German qualifier Michael Berrer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":35614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101010768,101010742,310],"class_list":["post-35629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-beijing-2012en","tag-china-open-2012en","tag-first-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629","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=35629"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35634,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629\/revisions\/35634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}