{"id":83331,"date":"2016-08-07T01:18:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T23:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=83331"},"modified":"2016-08-07T01:27:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T23:27:51","slug":"nole-zimonjic-advance-on-opening-day-in-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-zimonjic-advance-on-opening-day-in-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Games: Nole-Zimonjic advance on opening day in Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83325\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rio2016_dubl_02_afp.jpg\" alt=\"rio2016_dubl_02_afp\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rio2016_dubl_02_afp.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rio2016_dubl_02_afp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rio2016_dubl_02_afp-380x215.jpg 380w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rio2016_dubl_02_afp-267x150.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nole hit the doubles court at the Olympic Tennis Centre on Saturday pairing with his Davis Cup teammate Nenad Zimonjic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian duo won their opening round match of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rio.itftennis.com\/olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Olympic tennis tournament<\/a> outplaying Croatian combination of Marin Cilic and Marin Draganja 6-2, 6-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They broke twice in each set to seal the victory in 56 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nole and Nenad go on to face either no.3 seeds Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares of Brazil or Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana from Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak will play his singles first round match at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rio2016.com\/en\/tennis\" target=\"_blank\">Rio Olympics<\/a> on Sunday (Monday about 01:30 CET). His rival will be world no.145 Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina (11-3 H2H).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AFP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serbian duo won their opening round match 6-2, 6-2 against Croatian combination of Marin Cilic and Marin Draganja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":83324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012392,101010602,310,61,101012391,101012582],"class_list":["post-83331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-brazil-en","tag-doubles-en","tag-first-round","tag-olympic-games","tag-rio-de-janeiro-en","tag-rio-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83331","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=83331"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83340,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83331\/revisions\/83340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}