{"id":70615,"date":"2015-06-26T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=70615"},"modified":"2015-06-26T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:32:01","slug":"nole-wins-first-match-on-grass-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/nole-wins-first-match-on-grass-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak finalises preparations for Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70660\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/boodles_04.jpg\" alt=\" during Day 3 of The Boodles Tennis Event at Stoke Park on June 25, 2015 in Stoke Poges, England.\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/boodles_04.jpg 594w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/boodles_04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/boodles_04-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/boodles_04-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/boodles_04-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/boodles_04-590x393.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Novak returned to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theboodles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Boodles<\/a> tournament, the traditional Wimbledon warm-up event at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire, to finalise preparations for the defence of his Championships title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic clinched his first win on grass this year, beating Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-7 (8), 10-8 on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak made a confident start, breaking in the opening game of the match. It was enough for the Serbian star to take the first set.<\/p>\n<p>Both players were enjoying entertaining the crowd. Games went with serve in the second set, the Frenchman prevailed in a tie-breaker to level.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Belgrade native had a 2-5 deficit in a super tie-breaker, but managed to come back and seal it 10-8.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5dwX2zMcINI\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>In his second match on the surface, Novak lost to young German hope Alexander Zverev on Friday, 4-6, 3-6.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XmIeZMF3BLk\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 beat Gasquet 6-4, 6-7 (8), 10-8 on Thursday, lost to A.Zverev 4-6, 3-6 on Friday, at The Boodles \u2013 the traditional Wimbledon warm-up event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":70661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[101011679,101012333,101011671,101011674,101011441],"class_list":["post-70615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-other-news","tag-buckinghamshire-en","tag-exhibition-en","tag-great-britain-en","tag-the-boodles-2015-en","tag-the-boodles-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70615","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70615"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70669,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70615\/revisions\/70669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}