{"id":920,"date":"2009-11-03T22:07:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:20:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T17:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:25:41","slug":"novak-reaches-second-round-in-basel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-reaches-second-round-in-basel\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak reaches second round in Basel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"arhiva\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/337.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> {nl}{nl}World no.3 Novak Djokovic advanced into the second round of Davidoff Swiss Indoors Basel with a 6-3, 7-5 win over world no.33 German Andreas Beck in 1 hour and 27 minutes on his debut at the ATP World Tour 500 indoor hard-court tournament.{nl}{nl}Novak made breaks in the second and sixth game of the first set for convincing 5-1 lead. Beck broke back once when no.2 seed was serving for the set and then held for 5-3. Djokovic was more successful in the ninth game and closed it 6-3.{nl}{nl}Nole failed to convert two break points in the third game of the second set. The 22-year old Serb faced scare in the eighth game, but held to level the result to 4-4. He made a crucial break in the eleventh game and then served it out for 7-5. {nl}{nl}Djokovic will play against world no.59 Jan Hernych for a place in the quarter-finals on Thursday. The Czech defeated Australian qualifier Peter Luczak 6-3, 6-4.{nl}{nl}Novak and Luczak have met three times, Djokovic leads 2-1. He won their last two matches, both in 2009, in Marseille (7-5, 6-4) and Dubai (6-3, 3-6, 6-4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.3 Novak Djokovic advanced into the second round of Davidoff Swiss Indoors Basel with a 6-3, 7-5 win over world no.33 German Andreas Beck in 1 hour and 27 minutes on his debut at the ATP World Tour 500 indoor hard-court tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011963],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-basel-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27173,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/27173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}