{"id":98351,"date":"2018-03-23T21:47:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=98351"},"modified":"2018-03-28T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:57:09","slug":"novak-falls-in-opening-match-at-miami-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-falls-in-opening-match-at-miami-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak upset in second round at Miami Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former world no.1 and six-time champion Novak Djokovic could not get past the second round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Open presented by Ita\u00fa<\/a> on Friday, falling to Benoit Paire 3-6, 4-6 in 67 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ninth seed was broken twice in the first set, in the seventh and ninth games.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic saved three break points in a row in the second game of the second set, but Paire converted his chance in the sixth game. Nole immediately fought back and held to level at 4-4, but the Frenchman earned three match points on Nole\u2019s next serve and grabbed the first to capture the win. They are now tied 1-1 in H2H meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (2-9), double faults (3-2), winners (14-25), unforced errors (19-18), 1st serve points won % (53-75), total points won (45-58).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I wanted to come to Indian Wells and Miami because I wanted to see whether I can play a match. I love playing on the hard court. I wanted to get a couple tournaments before the clay court season starts. I obviously wasn&#8217;t ready for that,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;I felt I started the match well, first six games, then I just ran out of gas. He was serving well. I just wasn&#8217;t able to break him down. He was just coming up with the good shots at the right time. It happened very fast.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was Novak\u2019s third straight loss this season and his last appearance at Crandon Park Stadium on Key Biscayne, as the tournament is relocating to Hard Rock Stadium next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian star has been victorious in Miami on six occasions (2007, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole April 2018 desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Calendar_April2018.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world no.1 and six-time champion could not get past the second round of the Miami Open presented by Ita\u00fa on Friday, falling to Benoit Paire 3-6, 4-6 in 67 minutes. The match was Novak&#8217;s last appearance at Crandon Park Stadium on Key Biscayne, as the tournament is relocating to Hard Rock Stadium next year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":98340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011267,101012698,113],"class_list":["post-98351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-miami-open-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98351","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98351"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98508,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98351\/revisions\/98508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}