{"id":88050,"date":"2017-04-07T17:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=88050"},"modified":"2017-04-08T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T13:26:11","slug":"davis-cup-novak-puts-serbia-ahead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/davis-cup-novak-puts-serbia-ahead-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup: Serbia in control against Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Novak and Viktor Troicki both won on the opening day at Aleksandar Nikolic Arena to give Serbia a 2-0 lead over Spain going into Saturday\u2019s doubles.<\/p>\n

The world no.2 beat 24th-ranked Albert Ramos-Vinolas in straight sets to put hosts Serbia ahead in the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas<\/a> World Group quarter-final tie on Friday.<\/p>\n

Roared on by 4,000 passionate fans, Nole produced a solid performance to clinch a routine 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 win. He won 84% of his first service points.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Belgrade native broke once in the first two sets and twice in the third, having saved the only break point he faced during the one hour, 55-minute encounter.<\/p>\n

“I was especially happy with my serve. It was working very well today, I won a lot of points off my first serve. At this level that\u2019s important,”<\/strong> Novak said. “All in all, I\u2019m very pleased. I’m very glad to play for my country and get the opening point.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (10-6), double faults (2-5), winners (26-11), unforced errors (28-37), total points won (92-62).<\/p>\n

In the second match of the day, Viktor Troicki defeated Pablo Carreno Busta 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 to back up Nole’s victory.<\/p>\n

The Saturday doubles is scheduled at 16:00 CET. If Nenad Zimonjic and Viktor Troicki win the third point against Marc Lopez and Pablo Carreno Busta, Serbia will reach semi-finals for the first time since 2013.<\/p>\n

The winners will play France or Great Britain on September 15-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novak and Viktor Troicki gave Serbia a great start against Spain, winning both opening rubbers in their Davis Cup quarterfinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":88046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011773,101012598,101011745],"class_list":["post-88050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-belgrade","tag-davis-cup-2017-en","tag-quarterfinal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88050","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=88050"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88082,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88050\/revisions\/88082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}