{"id":44573,"date":"2013-04-05T22:54:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T21:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=44573"},"modified":"2013-04-06T02:36:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T01:36:38","slug":"davis-cup-novak-puts-serbia-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/davis-cup-novak-puts-serbia-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia,USA tied in Davis Cup QFs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Davis<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic gave Serbia the early lead over the USA with a comfortable straight sets victory over John Isner in the opening singles rubber of the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas<\/a> quarterfinal tie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reigning world no.1 was just too solid for his opponent, winning 7-6, 6-2, 7-5 in two hours on the hard court at the Taco Bell Arena in Boise, Idaho.<\/p>\n

Djokovic was broken in the third game, but he broke back three games later to level the result. One mini break was enough for the 25-year-old Belgrade native to win the opening set tie-breaker 7-5 after 44 minutes of play.<\/p>\n

Nole broke twice in the second set, in the third and seventh games, for convincing 6-2.<\/p>\n

The Australian Open champion made a crucial break in the eleventh game of the third set and served it out 7-5 for his 20th victory of the season (21-7 singles record in Davis Cup).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a huge advantage to start with a win, hopefully we can get another point today,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said. \u201cThe experience I have from past in this competition, playing against big servers, maybe helped me today to understand what I need to do on the court. I stayed composed, very patient and waited for my chances. I returned well when I needed to, and served really, really consistently well, on high level.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (5-17), double faults (2-2), winners (18-10), unforced errors (10-37), total points won (103-76).<\/p>\n

Novak looked very sharp during the match in which he converted all four of his break points, and won 86% of points on his first serve.<\/p>\n

\"Davis<\/p>\n

Top-ranked American Sam Querrey hit back for hosts, beating Viktor Troicki in five sets 7-6, 3-6, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 to level the tie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday doubles rubber will feature Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac against\u00a0the most successful duo of all-time, Bob and Mike Bryan.<\/p>\n

In the reverse singles on Sunday, Novak will play Sam Querrey\u00a0at 12.00 local time (20.00 CET),\u00a0followed by Troicki vs John Isner.<\/p>\n

Team captains have the right to change the players until an hour before the match.<\/p>\n

Serbia is aiming to reach the Davis Cup semifinals for the third time in four years.<\/p>\n

The winner of the tie will face Italy or Canada for a final spot.<\/p>\n

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

World no.1 put Serbia ahead in their quarterfinal tie against USA with a 7-6, 6-2, 7-5 victory over John Isner, but Sam Querrey hit back for hosts, beating Viktor Troicki to level the tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":44575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012439,101010723,101010550,101012262,101011960],"class_list":["post-44573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-boise-en","tag-davis-cup-2013en","tag-quarterfinals-en","tag-serbia-en","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44573","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=44573"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44623,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44573\/revisions\/44623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}