{"id":99543,"date":"2018-04-25T14:37:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=99543"},"modified":"2018-04-25T22:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T20:39:50","slug":"klizan-downs-novak-in-barcelona-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/klizan-downs-novak-in-barcelona-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Klizan downs Novak in Barcelona opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No.6 seed Novak Djokovic fell to a surprise defeat by world no.140 Martin Klizan 2-6, 6-1, 3-6 in the second round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcelonaopenbancsabadell.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Klizan produced a solid attacking display to beat Novak in one hour and 39 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The two split one-sided sets before a break in the eighth game of the deciding third set earned Klizan the chance to serve for the match. He won it on the second match point, as Djokovic hit a forehand into the net.<\/p>\n<p>This was the fifth career meeting between Nole and the Slovak qualifier, and Klizan\u2019s first victory.<\/p>\n<p>Novak hit 19 winners but struggled with his backhand, making 22 unforced errors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI feel I haven\u2019t lived up to your expectations, not even my own,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to deal with these types of games and defeats, I wasn\u2019t playing at my best, only during the second set. I will try to continue and see where it takes me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (5-4), double faults (2-4), total points won (65-63).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next tournament for Novak will be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madrid-open.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mutua Madrid Open<\/a> from May 6 to May 13. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star lifted the trophy twice in the capital of Spain, in 2011 and 2016. Last year he lost to Rafael Nadal in semis (2-6, 4-6).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: EPA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak lost to Martin Klizan 2-6, 6-1, 3-6 in one hour and 39 minutes. The Serbian star will next play at the Mutua Madrid Open from May 6 to May 13. He lifted the trophy twice in the capital of Spain, in 2011 and 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":99548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101012974,101012975,113],"class_list":["post-99543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-barcelona-en","tag-barcelona-open-banc-sabadell-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99543","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=99543"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99577,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99543\/revisions\/99577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}