{"id":780,"date":"2009-03-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:41:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:41:51","slug":"nole-self-confident-ahead-of-the-tie-vs-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-self-confident-ahead-of-the-tie-vs-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole self-confident ahead of the tie vs Spain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/146.jpg>{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo by Sr\u0111an Stevanovi\u0107 (TSS)<\/font>{nl}{nl}Number three in the world, the best Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic is full of self-confidence one day before the draw for the first round of World Group Davis Cup tie between Spain and Serbia.{nl}{nl}The main subject is the surface, clay?{nl}{nl}- Clay. That\u2019s simply the surface that suits the Spanish team, because they all grew up playing on it. It isn\u2019t in our blood as much as it\u2019s in theirs. Players from Spain, starting from the world no.1 Rafael Nadal downward, all achieve their best results on clay. Nadal has won four Rolland Garros titles in a row. They are impeccably physically prepared, and the slowest surface suits them best. But we can see that over the years they have been improving, and are becoming dominant on other surfaces too, like Nadal on grass and hard courts.{nl}{nl}About the team of Spain?{nl}{nl}- Their biggest strenghth is having Rafael Nadal as their leader. When he\u2019s around they gain the additional strength, especially in front of their home crowd. But in a competition such as Davis Cup, it doesn\u2019t always happen that the favorite wins.{nl}{nl}It happened in the last season\u2019s final when the Spaniards without Nadal surprised Argentina away?{nl}{nl}- On ATP tournaments we primarily represent ourselves, and then our country, and in Davis Cup we all play for our country, we put Serbia first, and that\u2019s the additional motive to put on even better performance.{nl}{nl}Have the weather conditions disrupted practice?{nl}{nl}- The conditions are the same for everyone. To be honest, I did arrive a bit later than the others.{nl}{nl}You had a good reason. You won the tournament in Dubai.{nl}{nl}- Yes, that\u2019s the only excuse I have.{nl}{nl}Our team?{nl}{nl}- Although we\u2019ve been given the toughest possible draw this year, we musn\u2019t give up without a fight. I truly believe that we have realistic chance to beat Spain. We\u2019re a young team, full of potential. With the quality we have we\u2019re capable of  beating any team in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number three in the world, the best Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic is full of self-confidence one day before the draw for the first round of World Group Davis Cup tie between Spain and Serbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010212],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-davis-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28482,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/28482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}