{"id":916,"date":"2009-10-18T00:41:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T23:41:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:09:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:09:19","slug":"novak-davydenko-was-too-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-davydenko-was-too-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak: Davydenko was too good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/333.jpg> {nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player of all-time will not contend for title at the Masters tournament in Chinese city of Shanghai. Russian Nikolay Davydenko beat him in the semifinals in three sets, 2-1.{nl}{nl}Novak is aware he\u2019s done a great job in the last two weeks-he won the tournament in Beijing and reached semifinals in Shanghai&#8230;He will improve his ranking to no.3 on Monday!{nl}{nl}\u201dI&#8217;m disappointed because I played a great match&#8230;Anyway, two weeks of great tennis are behind me. There was no problem in that tie-break, Davydenko just played much better. He was obviously too good for me today.  I&#8217;m disappointed, because I think I played a great match, and I wanted to reach another final. On the other hand, I have to admit this is not bad either. I\u2019ve had fantastic two weeks in China, I won one tournament and played semis here in Shanghai, so I think I can be satisfied with my performance\u201d-said Novak.{nl}{nl}Davydenko said he wasn\u2019t sure if the player who played better won, and that Novak had every reason to be proud of himself and his results.{nl}{nl}\u201cThe match lasted three hours and was decided on a tie-break, which tells enough how difficult it was to win. Who was better?  I don&#8217;t know.  He was better, but I won.  He made many mistakes and also lost concentration, and I got the chance to advance into finals\u201d-said Davydenko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best Serbian tennis player of all-time will not contend for title at the Masters tournament in Chinese city of Shanghai. Russian Nikolay Davydenko beat him in the semifinals in three sets, 2-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011953],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-shanghai-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28368,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/28368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}