{"id":57519,"date":"2014-04-15T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=57519"},"modified":"2014-04-17T17:16:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:16:35","slug":"novak-crushes-montanes-to-open-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-crushes-montanes-to-open-title-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak crushes Montanes to open title defence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

World no.2 Novak Djokovic started the defence of his Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters<\/a> crown with a convincing 6-1, 6-0 victory over no.57-ranked Albert Montanes on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novak needed just 45 minutes to advance into the third round and improve his perfect H2H record with the Spaniard to 6-0.<\/p>\n

Djokovic hit five aces and recorded 27 winners. He won 83 per cent of points when his first serve was successful.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Belgrade native converted five of his 12 break point opportunities and saved all four break points he faced.<\/p>\n

“For the first match on clay, it was great,<\/strong>” <\/strong><\/strong>said Novak. “<\/strong>I lost only one game, so there were not too many flaws in my game that I could recall. On the other side, I’ve had an opponent that is a specialist for this surface, but he hasn’t played even close to his highest level.\u00a0 He was making a lot of unforced errors. Me on the other side, I was just trying to use the court well, not allowing him to get into the rhythm.\u00a0 I was changing the angles.\u00a0 I was coming to the net, being aggressive. Just very good first match.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (5-0), double faults (0-1), winners (27-1), unforced errors (16-18), total points won (55-23).<\/p>\n

Novak next plays world no.62 Pablo Carreno Busta (LL)<\/strong>. The Spaniard shocked Gael Monfils 6-3, 7-6.
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Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Djokovic needed just 45 minutes to advance into the third round at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. He beat Albert Montanes 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":57522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,133,1672,113],"class_list":["post-57519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-monte-carlo-2","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57519","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=57519"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57591,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57519\/revisions\/57591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}