{"id":887,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-crushes-ljubicic-in-opener\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:32:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:32:02","slug":"nole-crushes-ljubicic-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-crushes-ljubicic-in-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole crushes Ljubicic in opener!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/285.jpg> {nl}{nl}Fourth-seeded Novak Djokovic made his way confidently through his first round match at the US Open. He needed just 1 hour and 37 minutes to beat world no.51 Croat Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 on Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday.{nl}{nl}Djokovic held comfortably at the beginning of the match to take the lead. A break in the second game was enough for the Serb to take the first set 6-3 in 33 minutes.{nl}{nl}World no.4 won the second set 6-1 in just 26 minutes, breaking his opponent\u2019s service three times.{nl}{nl}Ljubicic couldn\u2019t find a solution for Novak\u2019s game not even in the third set. The best Serbian tennis player closed it 6-3 after he converted a break point in the eighth game.{nl}{nl}Djokovic served 9 aces to Ljubicic\u2019s 10. World no.51 made 4 double faults.{nl}Novak hit 26 winners to his opponent\u2019s 22, and made only 7 unforced errors, 20 less than Ljubicic.{nl}The Serb converted 5 of his 10 break points, while the Croat didn\u2019t have a single chance for break.{nl}{nl}Nole\u2019s second round rival will be world no.155 Australian Carsten Ball who defeated world no.188 Argentine Juan Pablo Brzezicki in straight sets. Novak has never played against Ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth-seeded Novak Djokovic made his way confidently through his first round match at the US Open. He needed just 1 hour and 37 minutes to beat world no.51 Croat Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 on Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011740,729,101010284],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam","tag-ljubicic-crushes","tag-us-open-2009-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27134,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/27134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}