{"id":51987,"date":"2013-10-09T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=51987"},"modified":"2013-10-09T12:06:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T10:06:54","slug":"novak-opens-shanghai-title-defence-with-routine-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-opens-shanghai-title-defence-with-routine-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak opens Shanghai title defence with routine win"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

World no.2 Novak Djokovic needed just 70 minutes to open his title defence on Wednesday, defeating Spain\u2019s Marcel Granolleres 6-2, 6-0, to reach the third round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novak won 81% per cent of his first service points, converted five of his 10 break point opportunities and saved all three break points he faced.<\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (6-0), double faults (2-4), winners (26-9), unforced errors (16-17), total points won (58-34).<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Djokovic is attempting to capture his fifth tour-level title of the year (4-2 overall record) this week. He improved to a 58-9 season record.<\/p>\n

Novak will next challenge world no.17 Fabio Fognini (5-0 H2H). The Italian advanced when Tommy Robredo was forced to retire from their match with a wrist injury. Fognini had been leading 7-6(3), 2-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Top-seeded Nole ousted world no.36 Marcel Granollers of Spain 6-2, 6-0 on Wednesday to advance into Shanghai Rolex Masters last 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":51982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012131,133,113,101012348,101011297],"class_list":["post-51987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-china","tag-defending-champion","tag-second-round","tag-shanghai-en","tag-shanghai-rolex-masters-2013-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51987","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=51987"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51996,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51987\/revisions\/51996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}