{"id":786,"date":"2009-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-21T19:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:54:27","slug":"djokovic-wins-indian-wells-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/djokovic-wins-indian-wells-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic wins Indian Wells opener!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/153.jpg>{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo by Jason Summers<\/font>{nl}{nl}Defending champion Novak Djokovic is through to the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells (hard, $4,500,000) with a straight sets win over world no.54 Argentine Martin Vassallo Arguello 7-5, 6-4 in 1 hour and 44 minutes.{nl}{nl}Arguello saved a break point in the third game, but Novak managed to break his service in the seventh for 4-3. The Argentine broke back immediately to equalise to 4-4. The best Serbian tennis player put the pressure again in the eleventh game, broke his opponent\u2019s service for the second time, and served out for the set, 7-5.{nl}{nl}Nole broke in the third game of the second set to go 2-1 up, but Arguello broke straight back. World number three broke for the second time in the seventh game, and then held for 5-3. He was confident serving for the match and closed it 6-4.{nl}{nl}Djokovic served 2 aces. He hit 22 winners to Arguello\u2019s 11, and made 28 unforced errors to the Argentine\u2019s 13. {nl}Nole converted on 4 of his 8 break point chances, while Arguello capitalised on both chances he had.{nl}{nl}Novak will next face German Tommy Haas who defeated his compatriot Rainer Schuettler in three sets, 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-4.{nl}{nl}Djokovic won their only match at Roland Garros in 2006. The result was 7-5, 6-1, 7-6(4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Novak Djokovic is through to the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells (hard, $4,500,000) with a straight sets win over world no.54 Argentine Martin Vassallo Arguello 7-5 6-4 in 1 hour and 44 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011807],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-indian-wells-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27872,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/27872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}