{"id":87669,"date":"2017-03-14T01:53:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=87669"},"modified":"2017-03-16T03:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T02:05:23","slug":"noletroicki-stun-top-seeds-and-defending-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/noletroicki-stun-top-seeds-and-defending-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole\/Troicki stun top seeds and defending champions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87664\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/iw2017_dubl_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/iw2017_dubl_06.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/iw2017_dubl_06-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/iw2017_dubl_06-380x215.jpg 380w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/iw2017_dubl_06-267x150.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak and his doubles partner at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnpparibasopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BNP Paribas Open<\/a>, Viktor Troicki, saved a match point en-route to a 5-7, 6-1, 11-9 victory over top seeds and defending champions Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The French duo prevailed in the opening set, but Nole and Viktor responded strong, breaking their rivals twice in the second set to force a match tie-break. They faced a match point at 8-9 in the decider, but fought it off and went on to seal the win and set up a quarter-final meeting with no.6 seeds Raven Klaasen (RSA) and Rajeev Ram (USA).<\/p>\n<p>The match lasted one hour and 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><u>Stats<\/u>: aces (4-3), double faults (4-4), total points won (66-62).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l-HRyXmwR-A?rel=0?ecver=1\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will look to clinch his 300th ATP Masters 1000 match-win on Tuesday at 19:00 local time (Wednesday at 03:00 CET) when he faces Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 31).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak and Viktor saved one match point en-route to a 5-7, 6-1, 11-9 victory over Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut. They face Klaase\/Ram in quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":87665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012695,392,101012149,113],"class_list":["post-87669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-bnp-paribas-open-2017-en","tag-doubles","tag-indian-wells","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87669","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=87669"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87771,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87669\/revisions\/87771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}