{"id":78458,"date":"2016-03-04T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=78458"},"modified":"2016-03-05T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T17:28:01","slug":"nole-puts-serbia-ahead-in-davis-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-puts-serbia-ahead-in-davis-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup: Serbia 1-2 Kazakhstan after Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dejvis<\/p>\n

Kazakhstan took a 2-1 lead against Serbia in their Davis Cup by BNP Paribas<\/a> first round tie after Andrey Golubev and Aleksandr Nedovyesov beat Novak Djokovic and Nenad Zimonjic 6-3, 7-6(3), 7-5 in Saturday\u2019s doubles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The teams were locked at one-all after Friday. Mikhail Kukushkin defeated Viktor Troicki 7-5, 6-2, 6-4 to level the tie, after Novak dominated Alexandr Nedovyesov in the opening rubber.<\/p>\n

The Serbian and world no.1 broke twice in each of the sets to seal a routine 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 win on an indoor hard court in Belgrade. Novak saved the only break point he faced, while converting six of 15 he created during the one hour, 53-minute match.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Statistics<\/u>: aces (5-2), double faults (2-6), winners (24-16), unforced errors (31-37), 1st serve points won % (85-56), 2nd serve points won % (92-78), total points won (95-64).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had never played before but I was aware that Nedovyesov plays with a lot of heart and can be a very awkward opponent when given time to hit the ball, hence I knew I had to change the rhythm and mix it all the time to unsettle him,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great honour to have played my first Davis Cup tie in this iconic venue.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is the first Davis Cup tie played in the Aleksandar Nikolic Arena since 1989, when the former Yugoslavia beat Denmark 4-1 in the competition\u2019s first round. The venue was called Pionir until a recent change of name to honour one of Serbia\u2019s iconic basketball coaches.<\/p>\n

In Sunday\u2019s reverse singles Nole plays Kukushkin and Troicki meets Nedovyesov.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Andrey Golubev and Aleksandr Nedovyesov defeated Djokovic and Zimonjic 6-3, 7-6 (3), 7-5 to hand the visitors a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011773,101012473,310,908,101011780,778],"class_list":["post-78458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-belgrade","tag-davis-cup-2016-en","tag-first-round","tag-kazakhstan","tag-serbia","tag-world-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78458","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=78458"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78496,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78458\/revisions\/78496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}