{"id":78141,"date":"2016-02-22T17:39:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T16:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=78141"},"modified":"2016-02-25T01:40:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:40:35","slug":"novak-tops-robredo-in-straights-to-open-dubai-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-tops-robredo-in-straights-to-open-dubai-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak tops Robredo in straights to open Dubai campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ubedljiva<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic, four-time former\u00a0champion at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships<\/a>, cruised into the second round of the 2016 tournament edition on Monday with a 6-1, 6-2 win over world no.41 Tommy Robredo of Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The top-seeded Serb broke Robredo’s serve twice in each of the sets, having denied his opponent a single break point opportunity during the 66-minute clash.<\/p>\n

“Playing my first match in three weeks, different conditions, I didn’t know how I would start, whether or not I would execute the game plan as I prepared myself to,”<\/strong> said Djokovic. “But everything went well. Very few things went wrong. I was putting constant pressure on his serve. I returned very, very well. Served solid and was aggressive from the back of the court. I cannot be happier with this performance.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (6-2), double faults (1-3), total points won (66-41).<\/p>\n

For a place in the quarter-final, Novak will play against Malek Jaziri of Tunisia who beat Russian Mikhail Youzhny 6-4, 6-1. It will be their first career meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 500 tournament is Nole’s first ATP World Tour event since winning his sixth Australian Open crown three weeks ago. He was victorious in Dubai in 2009-2011 and 2013.<\/p>\n

Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novak cruised into the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships with a 6-1, 6-2 win over world no.41 Tommy Robredo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101012531,101012429,310],"class_list":["post-78141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-dubai-2016-en","tag-dubai-duty-free-tennis-championships-en","tag-first-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78141","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78141"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78159,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78141\/revisions\/78159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}