{"id":78249,"date":"2016-02-25T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=78249"},"modified":"2016-03-03T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T19:31:16","slug":"atp-dubai-lopez-advances-as-novak-retires-with-eye-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/atp-dubai-lopez-advances-as-novak-retires-with-eye-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Dubai: Lopez advances as Novak retires with eye infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78242\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dubai2016_07.jpg\" alt=\"Novak predao \u010detvrtfinalni me\u010d Dubaija zbog infekcije oka\" width=\"590\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dubai2016_07.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dubai2016_07-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dubai2016_07-267x156.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 and four-time former titlist Novak Djokovic retired at 3-6 in his quarter-final match against no.6 seed Feliciano Lopez at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubaidutyfreetennischampionships.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">2016 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships<\/a> on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serb\u00a0was clearly struggling with an eye condition and could not continue.\u00a0He informed the umpire of his decision after 33 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt&#8217;s an eye problem,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic explained. <strong>\u201cI have had it ever since I arrived in Dubai. It started with an infection and then severe allergy. It&#8217;s gotten worse in the last two days, unfortunately. It&#8217;s the first time that I have had such a problem with the eye. It was ultra-sensitive today. I&#8217;m really sad to finish the tournament this way. I apologise to all the people who came to watch the match. I apologise to the tournament director and those who came out to support me. I&#8217;m really sad to end out the tournament this way, but I was forced to.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is first retirement for Nole\u00a0since 2011 Davis Cup semi-final\u00a0match against Del Potro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak\u00a0will join team of Serbia for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daviscup.com\/en\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Davis Cup<\/a> by BNP Paribas World Group first round tie against Kazakhstan, to be played on 4-6 March in Belgrade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top seed retired at 3-6 in his quarter-final match against Feliciano Lopez at the 2016 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101012197,101012429,101011745,98],"class_list":["post-78249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-dubai-en","tag-dubai-duty-free-tennis-championships-en","tag-quarterfinal","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78249","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=78249"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78268,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78249\/revisions\/78268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}