{"id":232,"date":"2011-02-26T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2011-02-26T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T17:13:24","slug":"djokovic-three-peats-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/26\/djokovic-three-peats-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic three-peats in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was right -- Nole showed up.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, with a total match time of 71 minutes. He has now won the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships three years in a row. Here are the stats from the match:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/djokovic-def-federer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-233\" src=\"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/djokovic-def-federer-224x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/djokovic-def-federer-224x300.png 224w, http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/djokovic-def-federer.png 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic got off to a great start in the match, breaking Federer's serve twice in the opening set. Novak's serve was impeccable in the first set, getting 85% of his first serves in and winning 15\/17 of those first service points. His serve dropped off slightly in the second set allowing Roger to open up a 3-1 lead. At this point, it looked like Federer was stepping up his level of play just as Djokovic was doing the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>But that lead didn't last long. Instead of Roger holding on to force a third and deciding set, Nole set off on a mad dash for the finish line and won 5 games in a row. I guess that qualifies as an impressive way to win a championship. More on Novak's hat-trick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/News\/Tennis\/2011\/02\/8\/Dubai-Saturday-Djokovic-Wins-Third-Dubai-Title.aspx\">here<\/a>. As the article suggests, Djokovic appears to be the man to beat on tour this year.<\/p>\n<p>Can't argue with that.<\/p>\n<p>-multi<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was right &#8212; Nole showed up. Reigning Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, with a total match time of 71 minutes. He has now won the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships three years in a row. Here are the stats from the match: Djokovic got off to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}