{"id":59519,"date":"2014-06-23T19:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=59519"},"modified":"2014-06-25T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:42:28","slug":"novak-makes-winning-start-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-makes-winning-start-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak makes winning start at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59527\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wimbledon_03.jpg\" alt=\"Nole ekspresno do drugog kola Vimbldona\" width=\"590\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wimbledon_03.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wimbledon_03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wimbledon_03-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wimbledon_03-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/wimbledon_03-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic opened his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">2014 Wimbledon<\/a> campaign with a 6-0, 6-1, 6-4 victory over Andrey Golubev on Centre Court on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted one hour and 28 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Novak made a strong start. In his first match since the Roland Garros final, he won the first 11 games before Golubev managed to get on the scoreboard. The 27-year-old Serbian broke in the ninth game of the third set and wrapped up his 39th win at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It was a great start, especially in the first two sets,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0the 2011 champion said. <strong>&#8220;Credit to Andrey for coming back in the third, but I can&#8217;t be happier with the performance. It&#8217;s never easy coming into a tournament, and you can never underestimate any opponent. But I started extremely well and played a very good game.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\nMatch statistics<\/span>: aces (7-1), double faults (0-3), winners (34-15), unforced errors (14-22), total points won (92-57).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E9x1ua2Id-g\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will play against world no.38 Radek Stepanek on Wednesday. The Czech eliminated Pablo Cuevas in straight sets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will be the 12th career encounter between the two, Djokovic leads their H2H 10-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgrade native won the Championships title in 2011 (d. Nadal) and finished runner-up last year (l.to Murray).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AFP\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole opened his 2014 Wimbledon campaign with a 6-0, 6-1, 6-4 win over Andrey Golubev in one hour and 28 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":59527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[310,101010469,101012193,101011449,101012463],"class_list":["post-59519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-first-round","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-the-championships-en","tag-wimbledon-2014-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59519","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=59519"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59560,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59519\/revisions\/59560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}