{"id":67983,"date":"2015-04-05T22:13:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=67983"},"modified":"2015-04-06T00:53:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T22:53:47","slug":"novak-makes-history-claims-fifth-miami-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-makes-history-claims-fifth-miami-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak makes history, claims fifth Miami crown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68029\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/miami2015_17.jpg\" alt=\"Novak pokorio Majami i u\u0161ao u tenisku istoriju!\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/miami2015_17.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/miami2015_17-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/miami2015_17-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/miami2015_17-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/miami2015_17-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nole made tennis history on Sunday, becoming the only man to claim the Indian Wells\/Miami title double for a third time!<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic won his fifth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Open\u00a0presented by Ita\u00fa<\/a> title, taking out third-seeded Scot Andy Murray 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-0.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match that lasted two hours and 46 minutes was played in hot and humid conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Novak fought back from a break down twice, before sealing the opening set in a tie-breaker.<\/p>\n<p>Games went with serve in the second set until the 10th game, when Andy capitalised on his chance to draw level at one set apiece.<\/p>\n<p>The top seed quickly regained control of the contest. He sealed his 25th win of the season with a love set, breaking the Dunblane native three times in a decider.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I want to thank my team for hanging in there through good and bad times,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>&#8220;This is one of the best tournaments on the calendar with lots of options both on and off court and I hope it continues for many years to come.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (4-8), double faults (4-3), winners (28-29), unforced errors (37-48), total points won (103-96).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1PUosij0Eek\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak has now collected 22 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 shields. The title is his 51st in career, third in 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Serbian star previously triumphed at Crandon Park in 2007 (d. Canas), 2011 (d. Nadal), 2012 (d. Murray) and 2014 (d. Nadal).<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic will tie Nadal&#8217;s total of 141 weeks at the top of the ATP Rankings on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>After a week off, Nole switches his focus to the clay court season. He will next play at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters (April 12-19), where he was triumphant in 2013. Last year, he fell in semi-finals to Roger Federer (5-7 2-6).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-0 victory over Andy Murray, Nole became the only man to win the Indian Wells\/Miami title double for a third time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":68030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011240,101012177,101011061,101010437,101012436,101011638],"class_list":["post-67983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-andy-murray-en","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-champion-en","tag-final-en","tag-miami-en","tag-miami-open-2015-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67983","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=67983"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68067,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67983\/revisions\/68067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}