{"id":776,"date":"2009-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:42:18","slug":"djokovic-captures-twelfth-career-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/djokovic-captures-twelfth-career-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic captures twelfth career title!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/142.jpg> {nl}{nl}Top seed Novak Djokovic won his first ATP World Tour title of the season after defeating fourth seed David Ferrer in straight sets, 7:5 6:3 in 1 hour and 37 minutes at the &#8216;Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships&#8217; on Saturday.{nl}{nl}Novak was the first to make a break in the sixth game of the first set. Three more breaks of service followed on both sides. At 6:5 the 21-year old made a crucial break to take the set 7:5.{nl}{nl}World number three gained the advantage at the beginning of the second set, and was leading 3:0. Ferrer managed to break in the seventh game, but the Serb broke back immediately to keep the lead 5:3. He faced scare serving for the match, but held and closed the set with his third ace. The result was 6:3.{nl}{nl}&#8221;It&#8217;s a very important title. I haven&#8217;t started the year the way I maybe wanted it and maybe the way people expected me to. I made some major changes with my racquet which was quite risky at this time, but I take my responsibility and move on. As the season is going on, I feel more comfortable with the racquet and more comfortable on the court. I try to release the pressure that I have and just play the kind of tennis that I played in the first part of 2008. If I do so, I think I will be pretty successful.&#8221;{nl}{nl}&#8221;Winning the tournament, any tournament, is a huge success, and especially here in Dubai, which has a history of being one of the strongest events in the Tour,&#8221; said Djokovic. &#8220;I played aggressively and at certain moments I was patient and mixed up the pace, which I think David didn&#8217;t like. He likes to play the same pace, and he&#8217;s a very hard-working player. He makes you earn every single point. That&#8217;s why he is at the top for many years now. Physically, and mentally, I was really involved in this tournament, especially from the quarter-finals on. I was really proud of myself, and I got to the finals and I had nothing to lose then. Nobody is favourite in the final. I think it&#8217;s a match where everybody has a motivation more to win the title.&#8221;{nl}{nl}&#8221;He played better than me, served better,&#8221; admitted Ferrer. &#8220;He was very, very focused on the match. But me, I played a good game. I&#8217;m happy with my game, but maybe the key was he&#8217;s a better tennis player than me. \u201c{nl}{nl}As the winner of the ATP World Tour 500 tennis tournament, Djokovic earned 500 ATP points and $383,000 prize money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Novak Djokovic won his first ATP World Tour title of the season after defeating fourth seed David Ferrer in straight sets, 7:5 6:3 in 1 hour and 37 minutes at the &#8216;Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships&#8217; on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012182],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-dubai-2009-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","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=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28486,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/28486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}