{"id":783,"date":"2009-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:41:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:41:40","slug":"davis-cup-spain-leads-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/davis-cup-spain-leads-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup: Spain leads 2:1!"},"content":{"rendered":"

{nl}Photo by Sr\u0111an Stevanovi\u0107 (TSS)<\/font>{nl}{nl}Spain leads 2:0 against Serbia in the first round of the Davis Cup World Group.{nl}{nl}David Ferrer brought the first point for the home team. He defeated world number three Novak Djokovic in straight sets. The result of the match that lasted 2 hours and 50 minutes was 6:3 6:3 7:6(4). {nl}{nl}It was clear before the match that this was going to be much harder task than a week ago in Dubai finals, because Ferrer plays his best on clay, and there\u2019s also the advantage of playing in front of the home crowd.{nl}{nl}No.12 in the ATP Rankings broke Novak\u2019s service in the opening game and then held for 2:0. Djokovic won three consecutive games to go up 3:2 and had 2 break points for 4:2, but failed to convert them. He was then punished and got broken twice til the end of the set. Ferrer took it 6:3.{nl}{nl}Nole didn\u2019t manage to find his rhythm in the second set, and lost it with the same result, 6:3.{nl}{nl}After being down 1:3 in the third set, Djokovic won three games to take a lead 4:3. At 6:5 the best Serbian tennis player had 2 break\/set points, but Ferrer held, and the set went to a tie-breaker. Although Novak was the first to make a mini-break, he made several errors that costed him the set and the match.{nl}{nl}“There were a lot of factors involved in this match. I don\u2019t want it to see I\u2019m trying to find explanation for my loss, but the fact is I haven\u2019t played a clay court match since May or June last year, and didn\u2019t really have serious practice here; had maybe one or two good practices. I just felt like I\u2019m on a foreign teritory today, I made a lot of unforced errors, and tried to find a rhythm, but it was too late. I think I played better towards the end of the match, especially in the second part of the third set, had some set points. I didn\u2019t use them. David played really solid, and made a very few unforced errors. He deserved to win”<\/b>, Novak said.{nl}{nl}Nole won only 17 of 50 points on his second serve. He made 59 unforced errors, 29 more than his opponent, and hit 37 winners to Ferrer\u2019s 26.{nl}{nl}World number one Rafael Nadal won the second point for Spain with an easy victory over Janko Tipsarevic in 1 hour and 35 minutes. The Serb took only 3 games. The result was 6:1 6:0 6:2.{nl}{nl}Serbian combination Zimonjic\/Troicki defeated local boys Robredo\/Lopez 7:6, 6:4, 7:6 to bring the first point for Serbia.{nl}{nl}Sunday (Order of play)<\/u>:{nl}10.00 CET Rafael Nadal vs. Novak Djokovic<\/b>{nl}followed by David Ferrer vs. Janko Tipsarevic<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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