{"id":781,"date":"2009-03-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:41:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:41:56","slug":"davis-cup-ferrer-and-djokovic-face-off-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/davis-cup-ferrer-and-djokovic-face-off-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup: Ferrer and Djokovic face off first!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"arhiva\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/148dc.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>{nl}<span style=\"color: gray;\">Photo by Sr\u0111an Stevanovi\u0107 (TSS)<\/span>{nl}{nl}Only six days after the finals in Dubai, Novak will take on world no.12 David Ferrer again, in the first round of the Davis Cup World Group.{nl}{nl}This will be the opening singles rubber in Benidorm. The match is scheduled on Friday at 11am CET.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Ferrer have met seven times. Novak won the last one in Dubai finals, and he now leads 4-3.{nl}{nl}Second on court sees world no.1 Rafael Nadal take on world no.47 Janko Tipsarevic. Their only match was at US Open in 2007, when at 6:2 6:3 3:2 for Nadal, Janko retired.{nl}{nl}Doubles match will be played on Saturday. Novak Djokovic and Nenad Zimonjic will play for Serbia, Tommy Robredo and Feliciano Lopez for Spain.{nl}{nl}Novak Djokovic will face Rafael Nadal on Sunday at 11am. Janko Tipsarevic and David Ferrer will play the fifth rubber.{nl}{nl}Matches will be played at stadium Parque Tematico Terra Mitica (clay, capacity 14,000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only six days after the finals in Dubai, Novak will take on world no.12 David Ferrer again, in the first round of the Davis Cup World Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010212],"class_list":["post-781","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\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28483,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/28483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}