{"id":840,"date":"2009-05-23T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T09:16:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:34:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:34:14","slug":"djokovic-ready-to-make-nadal-bite-the-red-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/djokovic-ready-to-make-nadal-bite-the-red-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic ready to make Nadal bite the red dust!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/214.jpg>{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo by Roland Garros Official Site<\/font>{nl}{nl}A week after worrying claycourt king Rafael Nadal in Madrid, Novak Djokovic feels he has what it takes to clinch the French Open at the expense of the world number one.{nl}{nl}Spaniard Nadal, who is undefeated at Roland Garros since his debut in 2005, lost in the Madrid Masters final to Swiss Roger Federer a day after saving three match points against Djokovic in a four-hour tussle.{nl}{nl}\u201cThe semi-final against Rafa in Madrid gave me even more self belief that I might win in our next encounter,\u201d the world number four told reporters on Friday.{nl}{nl}The fourth-seeded Djokovic, who has lost to Nadal in the semi-final of the French Open for the past two years, will not be in the champion\u2019s half of the draw.{nl}{nl}Instead, Djokovic could face Federer in the last four, leaving him to hope Nadal\u2019s semi-final opponent would repeat the favour he did for the Swiss in Madrid.{nl}{nl}\u201cI have not seen the match, but they told me he (Nadal) wasn\u2019t moving quite well. I mean, obviously because of the long match we had played the day before,\u201d the 2008 Australian Open champion said.{nl}{nl}However, Djokovic was aware of the size of the task facing him if he is to depose Nadal in Paris.{nl}{nl}\u201cIf you talk about my matches on this claycourt season against Rafa, basically looking at each match I am getting closer and closer,\u201d he said.{nl}{nl}\u201cSo there is only one more point to go. But it\u2019s not that easy. Again, I\u2019m saying I played probably one of the best matches in my life against him on clay, even though I lost it.\u201d{nl}{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Source: Reuters<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after worrying claycourt king Rafael Nadal in Madrid, Novak Djokovic feels he has what it takes to clinch the French Open at the expense of the world number one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011901],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-roland-garros-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28431,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/28431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}