{"id":936,"date":"2009-11-15T20:44:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T19:44:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:03:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:03:50","slug":"novak-captures-paris-masters-title-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-captures-paris-masters-title-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak captures Paris Masters title (video)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/365.jpg> {nl}{nl}Third-seeded Novak Djokovic clinched his 16th career title and fifth of the year, with a fantastic three sets win over no.15 seed and hometown favourite Gael Monfils 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(3) in 2 hours and 43 minutes at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris.{nl}{nl}Djokovic was dominant in the first set. He made two breaks, in the fourth and eighth game, to take it 6-2.{nl}{nl}The 22-year-old Serb cruised through his first service game of the second set, broke his opponent\u2019s service in the second game and held for 3-0 lead. At 3-1 Djokovic handed Monfils his first break point of the match. No.15 seed used the opportunity, broke back and then leveled up with a solid service game. Nole was broken once again in the eleventh game and the Frenchman closed the set 7-5 to level the match.{nl}{nl}Novak held to 15 at the beginning of the third set. He earned three break points in the second game, and converted the third chance winning a 43 shot rally. Monfils broke back immediately, but Djokovic broke again and held  for 4-1 lead. The Frenchman fought back breaking Nole\u2019s service in the seventh game. The set went to a tie-breaker, Nole won it 7-3 to clinch his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title in his fifth final this season.{nl}{nl}Match statistics: aces (1-12), double faults (5-7), winners (33-25), unforced errors (41-39).{nl}{nl}&#8221;Winning back-to-back titles on this level is a huge achievement for me, and adding to that, beating No. 1, No. 2 of the world&#8221;, said Djokovic after the finals. &#8220;I&#8217;m very pleased with my performances in the past four, five weeks. I think winning back-to-back titles probably for the first or maybe second time in my career gives me even more motivation to make the same success in the future.&#8221;{nl}{nl}World no.3 will get 1000 ATP points and \u20ac450,000.{nl}{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Highlights (video HQ):<\/font>{nl}{nl}<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ry64DqSKoaU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ry64DqSKoaU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>{nl}{nl}We are only six days away from the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. The tournament in London begins on Sunday, November 26, featuring the world&#8217;s best eight players of the season: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Juan Martin del Potro, Andy Roddick, Nikolay Davydenko and Fernando Verdasco.{nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player won the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai last year, beating Nikolay Davydenko in the final 6-1, 7-5.{nl}{nl}<b>Congratulations champion!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third-seeded Novak Djokovic clinched his 16th career title and fifth of the year, with a fantastic three sets win over no.15 seed and hometown favourite Gael Monfils 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(3) in 2 hours and 43 minutes at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010388],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-paris-2009-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28349,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/28349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}