{"id":765,"date":"2009-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:43:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:43:53","slug":"novak-advances-to-the-second-round-in-marseille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-advances-to-the-second-round-in-marseille\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak advances to the second round in Marseille!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/\/077.jpg> {nl}{nl}After three weeks off the court Nole needed 86 minutes to clinch the win which secured him a place in the second round of the Open 13 tournament in Marseille.{nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player defeated the Frenchman Jeremy Chardy (54) in straight sets, 7:6(4) 6:4.{nl}{nl}There were no breaks of service in the opening set. At 6:5 on Jeremy&#8217;s service, Nole had 0-30, but the home player held to bring the set to a tie-breaker. Djokovic was the first to make a mini break, which brought him advantage and he took it 7-4.{nl}{nl}Chardy had a chance for a break already in the second game of the second set, but Novak saved it with a brilliant drop shot. The third player in the world had three break points in a row in the next game. He missed two, but managed to convert the third for 2:1. That was the only break in the match, and it decided the winner.{nl}{nl}Djokovic had a fantastic 89 first service percentage. He hit 11aces and won 70 points, 5 more than his opponent.{nl}{nl}Nole will play against Jan Hernych in the second round. Number 68 in the world  from Czech Republic beat the Belgian Kristof Vliegen. {nl}{nl}The Serbian and the Czech player met only once, in 2006, in the second round of Den Bosch (grass), Hernych won in straight sets, 6:2 6:4.{nl}{nl}Their match is scheduled on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three weeks off the court Nole needed 86 minutes to clinch the win which secured him a place in the second round of the Open 13 tournament in Marseille.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011750],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-marseille-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28496,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/28496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}