{"id":978,"date":"2010-02-22T20:24:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:52:08","slug":"novak-advances-to-second-round-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-advances-to-second-round-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak advances to second round in Dubai!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/429.jpg> {nl}{nl}Second-seeded Novak Djokovic began his title defence in Dubai with straight sets win over world no.47 Spaniard Guillermo Garcia -Lopez 6-4, 6-4 in 1 hour and 38 minutes.{nl}{nl}Novak won the opening game of the match without dropping a point. He broke his opponent\u2019s service already in the second game, but the Spaniard broke back immediately and then held to level the score. Djokovic made a crucial break in the tenth game to take the set 6-4 in 45 minutes.{nl}{nl}Nole rallied to a 5-0 lead in the second set, breaking Guillermo\u2019s serve twice. The Spaniard started playing better and used Novak\u2019s lapse of concentration to fight back for 5-4. Garcia-Lopez was serving to level and stay in the match, but the 22-year-old Serb earned two break points and used the second to close the set and match 6-4.{nl}{nl}Djokovic will next play against his compatriot Viktor Troicki. The world no.35 defeated German wildcard Reiner Schuettler 6-3, 6-4. Nole leads their head-to heads 2-1.{nl}{nl}Novak played in doubles competition in pair with fellow Serbian Dusan Vemic. They lost their first round match to Paul Hanley (AUS) and Simon Aspelin (SWE) 4-6, 3-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second-seeded Novak Djokovic began his title defence in Dubai with straight sets win over world no.47 Spaniard Guillermo Garcia -Lopez 6-4, 6-4 in 1 hour and 38 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010275],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-dubai-2010-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","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=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28320,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/28320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}