{"id":39213,"date":"2012-12-29T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T16:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=39213"},"modified":"2012-12-30T20:19:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T18:19:53","slug":"nole-wins-second-abu-dhabi-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-wins-second-abu-dhabi-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole wins second Abu Dhabi crown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Nole trofejom otvorio novu sezonu!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/abu_dhabi_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reigning Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic beat world no.11 Nicolas Almagro 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4 in two hours and 35 minutes to defend his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mubadalawtc.com\/Home.aspx\">Mubadala World Tennis Championship<\/a> crown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Games went on serve in the opening set. Novak earned a mini break advantage in a tie-breaker, but Almagro then won six of seven points and clinched it 7-4.<\/p>\n<p>Nole broke his opponent in the first game of the second set, but the Spaniard broke back immediately. Djokovic earned another break point opportunity in the third game and Almagro double-faulted to go down 1-2.The 25-year-old Belgrade native consolidated the break for 3-1 lead and converted one more chance to take the set 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic made a crucial break in the tenth game of the deciding set for 6-4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt was a fantastic experience again for me coming to Abu Dhabi. This is a very nice tournament, we always get great matches, very tough matches against top opponents, and great attendance also,\u201d<\/strong> said Novak at the trophy presentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI started a bit slow because I didn\u2019t feel as fresh and sharp as yesterday and I expected that because we\u2019ve been working very hard the last few weeks and it\u2019s catching up a little bit, so it\u2019s great to come out a winner from a match like this.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the consolation match for third place, Spaniard David Ferrer beat Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 7-6, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious exhibition tournament being played in Abu Dhabi, UAE, now in its fifth year, is one of the region\u2019s most eagerly anticipated sporting events bringing six of the world\u2019s top tennis players to the Abu Dhabi International Tennis Complex in Zayed Sports City.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will now head to Perth, Australia.\u00a0 He will team up with Ana Ivanovic to represent Serbia at the 25th <a href=\"http:\/\/hopmancup.com\/\">Hyundai Hopman Cup<\/a>, the international mixed team event to be staged at the new Perth Arena from December 29, 2012, to January 5, 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They will open campaign at the traditional warm-up competition leading into the Australian Open on Monday, December 31, 2012, at 10:00 local time (03:00 CET) against Italy. Singles matches are followed by mixed doubles.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ana Ivanovic vs Francesca Schiavone<br \/>\nfollowed by<br \/>\nNovak Djokovic vs Andreas Seppi<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, January 2, Serbia will meet Australia at 17:45 local time (10:45 CET).<\/p>\n<p>Ana Ivanovic vs Ashleigh Barty<br \/>\nfollowed by<br \/>\nNovak Djokovic vs Bernard Tomic<\/p>\n<p>The last match in group A, on January 4 at 17:45 local time (10:45 CET), sees Serbia vs Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Ana Ivanovic vs Tatjana Malek<br \/>\nfollowed by<br \/>\nNovak Djokovic vs Tommy Haas<\/p>\n<p>USA, Spain, South Africa and France will compete in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>The final match is scheduled on Saturday, January 5, at 17.45 local time (10.45 CET), when the winners of Group A and Group B meet.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AFP\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak successfully defended his Mubadala World Tennis Champioship title with a three sets win over Spaniard Nicolas Almagro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":39226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012218,101010755,101010437,101012351,101010919,101010505],"class_list":["post-39213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-abu-dhabi-en","tag-almagro-en","tag-final-en","tag-hopman-cup-en","tag-mubadala-world-tennis-championshipen","tag-titleen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39213","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=39213"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39219,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39213\/revisions\/39219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}