{"id":433083,"date":"2023-04-11T13:32:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433083"},"modified":"2023-04-11T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:46:31","slug":"djokovic-kicks-off-clay-season-with-a-2-0-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-kicks-off-clay-season-with-a-2-0-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic kicks-off clay season with a 2-0 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Novak Djokovic started his participation in the Monte Carlo Masters series with a win over Ivan Gakhov (Russia), who started from the qualifiers, 7:6(5), 6:2 in an hour and 48 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>The match was the Serbian&#8217;s first on clay this season and first since early March this year, when he lost to Daniil Medvedev in the semi-finals of the Dubai tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Novak Djokovic, who was resting in the first round, was a break down in the first set and trailed 3-4, but immediately leveled and had to go through a tiebreak to win the set. In the second set, he was more decisive against the 198th ranked Gakhov, made two breaks and won 6:2.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;It was a pleasure. You&#8217;re playing great, man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are the best. I hope to play more matches with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Respect at the net between world No. 1 Novak Djokovic and qualifier Ivan Garkhov \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TennisTV<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ptvpOTuVsP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ptvpOTuVsP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurosport (@eurosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport\/status\/1645822380575522816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The opponent of the Serbian tennis star in the round of 16 will be the winner of the Italian clash between Lorenzo Musetti and Luca Nardi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Novak Djokovic started his participation in the Monte Carlo Masters series with a win over Ivan Gakhov (Russia), who started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":433084,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18242,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18735,17855],"acf":{"announce":"Serbian tennis star started his participation in Monte Carlo Masters in the best way possible","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433083"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433083"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}