{"id":63449,"date":"2014-11-10T22:27:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=63449"},"modified":"2014-11-11T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T07:27:28","slug":"imperious-nole-cruises-past-cilic-in-group-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/imperious-nole-cruises-past-cilic-in-group-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperious Novak cruises past Cilic in Group A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63445\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/atpfinals2014_03.jpg\" alt=\"Novak ekspresno do prve pobede u Londonu!\" width=\"590\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/atpfinals2014_03.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/atpfinals2014_03-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/atpfinals2014_03-267x172.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two-time defending champion Novak Djokovic produced an outstanding performance on Monday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barclaysatpworldtourfinals.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barclays ATP World Tour Finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The world no.1 needed just 56 minutes to beat eighth seed and US Open titlist Marin Cilic 6-1, 6-1 in his first Group A match at The O2 in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only time Cilic looked comfortable was in the opening game, which he won to love. Novak took the next eight games for a 6-1, 2-0 lead. Djokovic dropped his serve, but immediately regained his composure to improve to a perfect 11-0 lifetime against the Croat.<\/p>\n<p>It was Nole&#8217;s 58th win of the season, his 28th consecutive victory indoors and also the shortest match at ATP Finals ever.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (4-1), double faults (1-2), winners (13-6), unforced errors (12-22), total points won (54-29).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a great, great match. I haven&#8217;t played here for 12 months, it&#8217;s great to be back,&#8221; <\/strong>said Novak.<strong> &#8220;It was a great performance. <\/strong><strong>Marin as a US Open winner has a lot of confidence, but I managed to neutralise his serve and get a lot of ball back in play and that was part of the tactic.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/goofoCxfkio\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Serbian star is just two wins away from securing the year-end no.1 spot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In his second Group A Round Robin match on Wednesday, Novak will face no.3 seed Stanislas Wawrinka who ousted sixth-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych 6-1, 6-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has a 15-3 H2H record against the Swiss.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole beat eighth seed and US Open titlist Marin Cilic 6-1, 6-1 in just 56 minutes at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":63445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011310,101012277,133,101012193,101011548],"class_list":["post-63449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1500-en","tag-barclays-atp-world-tour-finals-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-london-en","tag-round-robin-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63449","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=63449"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63494,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63449\/revisions\/63494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}