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Dubai: Novak Djokovic Ends In The Semi-finals 2008-03-07 15:48:00 Dubai will see none of the Top #5 seeds in the Final match, Novak
#3 seed lost to Andy Roddick and #4 seed Nikolay Davydenko against Feliciano Lopez. Andy was not active in the top tournaments going on around Europe since the Australian Open, he spent that time participating in smaller tournaments in his home country.Novak lost in 2 sets 6:7 3:6 in a match that lasted less than 90 minutes First set passed in both players showing powerful serves, and eventually came down to tie-break where Andy managed to win the set. Novak had 9 aces, 22 out of 23 won points on first serve, 2 break points in first set.Andy had only 61% success of first serves, still he was best when it was the mst important and made two 'mini-breaks' in tie-break to win it 7:5. It was the first set that Novak lost in Dubai Read more:Dubai
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Dubai: Novak Djokovic's Another Convincing Win Another The Semi-Finals 2008-03-07 02:33:00 Novak Djokovic accomplished another easy 2:0 win and has reached the Dubai
Final, this time the win came against the World #34 Russian Igor Andreev 6:2 6:1 after only 55 minutes of play.With Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal out, Novak is the highest ranked player in the Semi-finalw and a favorite to win his 9th ATP career title. Novak and Igor met twice last year on clay surface and clay seems to be the only surface where Igor is a good enough match for Novak.After 2:2 in first set, Novak made 5 breaks and allowed Igor to win only one game. Novak will now play in the Semi-finals against #6 seed Andy Roddick who won against World #2 Rafael Nadal 6:6 6:2 in the Quarterfinals.Semi-final match Novak - Andy will be the second time that they meet, one time they play against each other was last yea Read more:Novak
Dubai: Novak Djokovic's Another Easy Win 2008-03-05 15:14:00 Novak Djokovic made another easy win in Dubai
, this time in Round 2 against Fabrice Santoro with 2:0 in sets 6:3 7:6 in the match that lasted 1 hours and 38 minutes. In 1st set, Novak made a break at 2:1 in games, kept his service games where he won 94% of points on first serve and eventually won the set 6:3. Fabrice, a Frenchman born in Tahiti who started playing professional tennis when Novak was 2 years old, played much better in 2nd set and had 4 break opportunities, managing only 1 of them to use for 3:1 lead. Novak followed with winning a break and the set was tied to 6:6 in games. Novak is known as a 'tie-break specialist' and he gave little change to Fabrice, World #47, Novak won the tie break 7:3 and commented after the match: 'I started the match good as I was highly motivated fo Read more:Novak
Novak: Players no longer fear Federer 2008-03-04 16:33:00 After the win in a match against Marin Cilic in Round 1 of Dubai, Novak
talked more about Federer - Murray match then his own, sort of natural as the whole world is stunned by Roger's early exit in Round 1, plus Roger's possible lost of World #1 position after 47 months if Rafeal Nadals is to win Dubai.Novak said: 'Obviosly as the time passes by, we learn more and more, especially how to play against him (Roger). I believe after the results in past several month, increasing number of players believe they can beat him'.'Honestly, taking in consideration results from this year, play styles of both players and surface speed, I expected Murray to win. I think Roger doesn't like to get a lot of tennis balls deep in the court, on the other side Murray has a brilliant style, great talent, and kno Read more:Players
Dubai: Novak Djokovic In Round 2 Against Fabrice Santoro 2008-03-04 16:18:00 Novak made it to the Round 1 of Dubai
in the manner of an experienced player, he won the Round 1 match in 1 hour 18 minutes against Marin Cilic, former Junior #2, now World #45 in the ATP Rankings.In 1st set, decisive was the fifth game where Novak made a break without giving away a single point to his opponent. In 2nd set, 19-year old Marin lost serve games on two occasions, enough for Novak's 6:3 win. In contrast to Marin, Novak ruled the court when on serve, giving away only 1 point per serve game (38/51).Novak will now play against French veteran Fabrice Santoro who accomplished good result in Round 1 by beating Mikhail Youzhny with 2:0 in sets (6:4 6:3). Novak played one match against Fabrice who is current World #47, it was in the Paris Masters in 2007 when Fabrice won.Rafael Nadal a Read more:Novak
Dubai: Novak Djokovic Ahead Of Round 1 2008-03-03 17:30:00 Novak said he is looking forward to the match with Croatian Marin Cilic in Round 1 in Dubai
, where he is #3 seed: 'It's always a challenge when you play against a player for the first time. As World #3 I am a favorite in that match and I have great expectations. Preasure is a part of sport, only the toughest ones can deal with it. Cilic doesn't have anything to lose, he will be motivated, he will look for his chance'.Novak said he likes playing in Dubai and always had good support from the crowd: 'I played well last year. Here are a lot of Serbs and I hope to receive support from the audiance. I saw they (Serbian supporters) had interesting coreography last week in Women's Tournament with flags, shirts... I'll be happy if I receive the same support'.Novak said he recovered from the problem Read more:Novak
Dubai: Novak Djokovic - Marin Cilic In Round 1 2008-03-02 03:47:00 After a 20 days rest to heal the flu virus and exhaustion that followed, Novak
will be back on court this week in Dubai
and will play in Round 1 against Marin Cilic from Croatia, current World #38. They did not play against each other up to now.There was not much change in the ATP points difference between World Top 3 players, Roger Federer did not participate in tournaments for more than a month since Australian Open in January, Rafael Nadal had a rare appearance during February in Rotterdam but did not perform best.Federer will play in Round 1 against Andy Murrey, while Nadal will play agaist Philip Kohlschreiber.Tournament data - date: March 3-8th 2008, place Dubai UAE, surface: hard/outdoors, prize money: $1.426.000, official name: The Barclays Dubai Tennis Championship, last years win
ATP Rankings: Novak Djokovic Stays At #3, No Tournaments This Week 2008-02-25 16:54:00 On this morning's (February 25th) ATP Rankings
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stayed at #3. Federer did not particapate in any tournament past week as well so he stayed at #1 with 6.630 points, Rafael Nadal afte not overwhelmingly successful Rotterdam's performance is at #2 with 5.980 points, while Novak is #3 with 5.070, then a great gap with David Ferer at #4 with 2.695 points and Nikolay Davidenko at #5 with 2.640 points.The only big change in Top 10 is that Argentinian David Nalbandian is back in the Top 10 at #8 after winning Buenos Aires Tournament. Novak will play no Tournaments
this week taking time to rest and will be on court next week.
Novak Djokovic Speach In Front Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of People 2008-02-20 19:45:00 With Novak
taking a 20-day break due to health problems, we thought we may not heard about him much and know where he hangs out while taking time for himself and his personal life, something Top players usually do not have during the season. Well, he will appear on TV to give support to ongoing situation in home country.He will feature on TV tomorrow, February 21st, with a speack on the meeting of peace in Belgrade in front of probably several hundreds of thousands of people protesting against situation in Kosovo. Novak is a big patriot, he's dedicated to his family and roots, he loves his people, he always gave his best in Davis Cup team, last year he was voted for the personality of the year in Serbia, now he will give his support on the meeting where Prime-minister of Serbia, movie dire Read more:Front
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Boris Becker: Djokovic Ready To Be #1 2008-02-19 06:58:00 Boris Becker
expressed his assurance that the change at the top of men's tennis is not far away. Youngest Wimbledon Winner in history and one of the biggest stars the world of tennis ever had considers Novak Djokovic's fantastic plays in Australia a proof that he has matured to be serious #1 contender, just like Rafael Nadal.The great champion should know what he's talking about. In recent months, Nadal fell in Novak's shadow and Becker believes that Nadal's time is not over: 'When someone with 21 years of age has already won 3 Roland Gaross titles, he worth a lot. Rafa is capable of anything, in the last two years, he was the only one close to Federer and I believe he does not need to wait for Roger to retired to be #1. Though, he's not the only one.Becker became aware of Novak's qualitie Read more:Boris
Louis Hamilton Steals Award From Novak Djokovic 2008-02-18 12:15:00 Prestigious Sports Award
'Laureus' constituted of 43 living legends of World Sports jury was awarded in presence of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Novak
was one of among 6 sportsmen named in 'breath through of the year' category but award went to Formula 1 driver LouisHamilton
who finished ranked 2nd in his 1st season in F1 competition. Award for the sportsman of the year went to Roger Federer for 4th successive year. World Sports legends such as mark Spitz, Boris Becker, Serey Bupka, Nadia Komanechi and many other named Swiss Tennis player for best athelete in 2007 in famous theatre 'Marinski' in Sankt Petersburg.Another Tennis player, WTA's Justine Henan was named best sportswomen in 2007 while 2nd place went to high-jump record holder Jelena Isibayeva. Along with Novak, in 'breath t
Novak To Miss Rotterdam, On Court Not Before Dubai - March 3rd 2008-02-16 10:39:00 Just 2 days after lose to Simon, and text where we discussed whether Novak
needed to play in Marseille or was it more beneficial to cancel his participation and heal flu virus, the announcement came that Novak will not play in Rotterdam
due to health problems. Novak decided to miss Rotterdam where he made it to the semi-finals (lost to M. Youzhny) last year and won 110 ATP point he will now not be able to defend. Rotterdam is relatively close to Marseille and his home in Monaco, Novak would have 4 or 5 days to rest before first match.After winning the match against Novak, G. Simon lost to P-H. Mathieu 2:0 (6:3, 6:4). As well, Rotterdamn is 824.000 euros in prize money and in all more important to Novak than Marseille, it tells how exhausted Novak feels right now. Novak was supposed to be Read more:Dubai
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Marseille: Novak Djokovic - Gilles Simon - 1:2 2008-02-14 12:22:00 Coming to Marseille, question was is Novak
healthy enough to play? On Sunday he needed to withdraw due to exhaustion in a match against Davydenko when leading 2:1 in sets, match that sealed the victory for Russian Fed Cup team. Novak's 2 other Fed Cup team-mates also to caught a flu in Moscow have withdrown from participating in ongoing Belgrade Challenger this week for not being healthy enough.Marseille is a big venue with €534,000 in total prize money and 200 ATP points for the winner. Novak is #1 seed, he's ranked #1 in curent ATP race, #3 in ATP rankings and is tournament's leading Star, his first ATP tournament after winning Australian Open. Though he had all the reasons to cancel participation for not being fully healthy. Nadal World #2 and Federer World #1 do not participate in an Read more:Gilles
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Novak Djokovic Playing In Marseille This Week 2008-02-12 12:30:00 After Moscow and Fed Cup Singles participation, Djokovic is back on Tour in Marseille. It's to be seen how healthy Novak
is, he needed to withdraw on Sunday as he cought the flu. Novak is #1 seed in Marseille, along domestic French players, all eyes will be on him participating in the first ATP tournament after winning the Australian Open.In first round Novak will face Ivan Dodig from Croatia, World #296 who progressed to the first round through qualifications. The match will be played on Wednesday. Winner of the match will play against winner in the match between two French men David Guez (Wild Card) and Gilles Simon. If Novak is to progress in the Quarter-Final, he will face the biggest challenge probably in the name of Paul-Henri Mathieu #8 seed player. His possible oponents in the Semi
Fed Cup: The Day After By Head Coach Bogdan Obradovic 2008-02-11 15:49:00 Davis Cup head coach Bogdan Obradovic gave interview for 'MONDO' explaining 'they have nothing to regret for': 'We want to win Davis Cup, in that sense it doesn't matter if we lose in first round or in the Final. Russian Davis Cup Team head coach said if we play with our best players we can be best team in the world, it's surely a compliment. I hope we used out our bad luck on this occasion and that it will passs us by in the future.Asked if Novak Djokovic gave his maximum against Davydenko, Obradovic commentated: 'Just seeing Novak going out there is an act of bravery. Unfortunately he used up his 'fuel' he had in him at that moment, certainly the most important thing is he do not expose his health to jeopardy because of one match for National Team. I can only congratulate him on showed s Read more:Coach
Vodka named after Djokovic 2008-02-10 11:11:00 During Fed Cup match-up Serbia vs. Russia, after Novak withdrew during the match against Davydenko, a Russian reporter presented Novak a bottle of Vodka with Novak's picture on it and the sign 'Djokovka'. 'Argumenti i Fakti' journalist said: 'We do not want to watch such sad matches in the future, so I hope this present will cheer you up. You are the pride of Serbian people, as well, yu are the pride of all Slav people'.This present came after Novak's yesterday's victory in Doubles when he gave interview on press conference explaining how he and his team-mates heal current health problems: 'It's a sort of Vodka. Very strong alcohol. We usually drink it when something hurts us and it instantly passes away... Something like your Vodka... People from the West don't understand it'. So did the Read more:named
Fed Cup: Lost But Victorious 2008-02-10 10:39:00 Novak needed to withdraw after leading 2 sets to 1 against Davydenko. Novak, obviously not in best health condition, after winning two first sets 6:4 6:3 and losing third 6:4, was not able to continue the match. In the last Fed Cup match, Troicki won against Tursunov, and Russian progressed into the quarter-finals by beating Serbia 3:2 overall.Djokovic said he had no strength to finish the match against Davydenko and decided to withdraw not to risk his health: 'Before the match I was feeling good, but I knew there's possibility I couldn't take it all the way. I wanted to fight, but during the match I realized I don't have enough strength. I decided to stop because I didn't want to play with my health'.Djokovic said he himself decided to face Davydenko as he wanted to contribute to the win
Fed Cup: Djokovic-Zimonjic tougher than health problems and the Russian Doubles 2008-02-09 14:01:00 Djokovic-Zimonjic duo won against Youzhny-Tursunov in the Doubles
match keep hope alive for overall win. Russian
s now lead 2:1 over all. Despite health problems
, Djokovic even not being certain to play until few hours before the match, Serbian Duo accomplished a 3:0 (6:3, 7:6(8:6), 7:6(7:5)) win. After using the only break poin in the first set, Novak-Nenad duo won the set 6:3. Second set lasted for over an hour until the the tie-break and 8:6, N-N duo had plenty of break points during 2nd set but Russians managed to stay in the set win great services in those decisive moments. In the end, Russians were first to have a set point by 5:4. Onwards, the slight advantage was always on N-N side that finally lead them to set win. Nenad Zimonjic was the only player not to lose his service in this
Fed Cup: Novak Back In Training, Possible for Doubles Match 2008-02-08 15:46:00 While National Team coach Bogdan Obradovi and Viktor Troicki gave interviews after the loss against Nikolay Davydenko for 2:0 lead before the Doubles
match on Saturday noon time, Novak
Djokovic was back in training in the Louzhniki Hall.This was Djokovic's first training after 3 days since he cought flew, the same destiny to happen ot Nenad Zimonjic and Janko Tipsarevic. Novak stepping up on the court warmed hope that the Saturdays Doubles match will feature 'first team' including Zimonjic - Djokovic. Still, the decision on head coach and it will probably be known '1 to 12', that is, an hour before the match, even though he already listed that duo to appear on Saturday during media conference.Team captain said: 'Novak trains and I already listed him to play with Zimonjic. Still, he's not f Read more:Training
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Fed Cup: Novak Misses First Match 2008-02-08 09:15:00 Tough times faced Serbian Fed Cup team shortly after arriving to Moscow. Janko Tipsarevic was out as he caught flew, the same symptoms were noted with the other players, Zimonjic and Djokovic. Novak
missed his first match so he can be ready as he can be for the raimining matches. Zimonjic jumped in as a substitute against Youzhny and lost (1-3), so did Troicki (Tipsarevic's substitute) against Davydenko (2-3). These are some tought times, especially for Novak and his strong patriotic feelings to help the National Team. Just a few days before, Djokovic said in an interview: "It hurts that Tipsarevic won't be able to help", now he's out too.With wishes for Novak's best health, we'll keep you updated. Read more:First
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Fed Cup: Novak's Self-Assurance worries Russians 2008-02-07 05:50:00 Novak gave an interview two days ago on first media conference before the match against Russia in Serbia saying he has no fears that the Russian National team supporters will not be friendly to our players.Novak said in Moscow: "We are all friends with Russian players, and in my opinion, there's no reason for the Russian supporters to be unfriendly to us", also adding that he hopes Serbian players will not be welcomed the same way that Izraelis welcomed Maria Sharapova.Dmitrij Tursunov made sure to make good atmosphere, he said: "Novak does not win thanks to the surfaces, crowd or judges, but thanks to his knowledge", while Marat Safin added it will be hard to play against Novak as his self-assurance arose to maximum after Australian Open and he's full of positive charge.Discussions and do Read more:Novak
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Novak Djokovic - Gentleman Among The Ladies 2008-02-06 10:52:00 Novak Djokovic arose in the group of young Serbian Tennis players who took over the World of Tennis by storm, along WTA's Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic. Their success and break through came as if almost a team work. As one of them would make personal record high ranking, other would follow and take the lead, and so on ever since they entered Top 100, all the way to where they are now, all in Top 5.While two young ladies already had a domestic role-model of the same gender to look up to, namely former Serbian World #1 WTA Player Monika Seles, Djokovic needed to write history of Serbian Tennis by himself and be the first one to make it to ATP's Top 5. So he did.Today, February 6th 2008, Novak is ranked World #3 ATP player, position he occupies for months now. After Novak's recent suberb p Read more:Novak
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Indian Wells: Novak Djokovic Free in Round 1 2008-03-12 16:15:00 Novak Djokovic,, as #3 seed, will be free in Round 1 of Indian Wells
. Round 2 will bring Novak either Italian Andreas Seppi or one of the 12 Qualifiers. Novak's opponent, Andreas is a 23 year old, current World #40, #57 in the Race, with career high in Singles at #39 on February 25th 2008, highlights in 2008 include ATP Quarterfinal in Rotterdam, win in Bergamo Challenger in Singles and Doubles.In all, Andreas is in life time form with recently accomplished career highest ranking. Andreas and Novak played 2 times previuosly with Novak winning both matches, in 2007 in Vienna (hard surface, 6:4 6:3) and Rotterdam 2006 (hard surface, 6:2 2:6 7:5).Novak played in Indian Wells
' Final last year (lost to Rafael Nadal) and is defending 350 ATP points. He could match up with Rafael in the Semi-Fina Read more:Novak
ATP Ranking: No Change This Week Either 2008-03-11 05:41:00 Novak Djokovic remains on the #3 position, position he is at for some time now. Novak earned 130 points playing in Dubai Semi-Finals last week. This will be a tough month for Novak in North America as he defends huge number of ATP points. Last year Novak played in the Final of Indian Wells and won Miami so we can't expect for Novak to progress much up in the ranking.And the clay (Rafael Nadal's) season is coming!? The main for Indian Wells has not been announced up to now. Interesting thing about Indian Wells is that both ATP and WTA tours will be played at the same time there, another Novak's memorable Maria Sharapova impression!? Face to face meeting!?This is how the Top 5 list looks like: #1 Roger Federer 6.330 points, #2 Rafael Nadal 5.980, #3 Novak Djokovic 5.130, #4 Nikolay Davydenko Read more:Ranking
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Jay Leno hosts Novak Djokovic 2008-03-14 14:21:00 Novak Djokovic is free in Round 1 of Indian Wells, giving him enough time for fun activities, and what's the better way to do it than to team up with the funny man himself NBC's TV host Jay Leno
.Novak guested in Jay's Tonight Show on Wednesday, days before his first match in the first ATP Masters Series Event. Novak and Jay have one thing certainly in common, that is a good sense of humor, and yes Novak did impressions of Maria Sharapova in the Tonight Show. Novak walked to greet Jay saying: 'Can I get more applause? I'm a bit nervous'. Jay and Novak cover a range of topic including the benefits of winning a Grand Slam, Novak said: 'The first thing that comes up to my mind is the girls are looking better now. I get first class, better meals probably, so it’s a healthier life.'As it uses Read more:Novak
Indian Wells: No Problemo In Novak Djokovic's First Match 2008-03-15 17:13:00 Novak Djokovic, Indian Wells
' #3 seed, started the tournament successfully as expected. Novak won over Italian Andreas Seppi in two sets 6:3 7:6 (7:3) and once again proved he's a tie-break specialist.In the first set, Novak made a break in 4th game to make it 3:1 which was enough for securing the set by keeping serve games later on, 6:3. Novak used the same tactics in the second set, he waited for the chance that came in the fifth game to take a break game lead to 3:2. Novak didn't manage to keep the serve games and lost one in 10th game when Andreas made it 5:5, a lot of credits to for Andreas not giving up and fighting hard until the very end.Novak made a re-break for 6:5 lead but again lost his serve for 6:6 in game. In the tie-break, it was Novak's time, as it usually. Novak, also kno Read more:Novak
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Indian Wells: Novak Djokovic Against Guillermo Canas 2008-03-19 06:48:00 Today's Round 4 matches give us the answer who are to be the Quarterfinals participants of ATP Masters Series Tournaments in Indian Wells
2008. Novak
match is #4 on schedule and will not start before 2.15pm local time. Novak is seen as a strong favorite to win the match, the only player given greater chances to win against the opponent in 8 matchs of this Round is Roger Federer against Ivan Ljubicic. Highly interesting matches of the day will be Rafael Nadal (Indian Wells
' defending champion) and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Australian Open 2008 Finalist) with predicted chances 60-40% for win in Rafael favore.Here are Novak's some more thoughts on the upcoming match: 'I played Guillermo one time in Miami last year, and I played one of my best tennis, I think, in that final. It was a three set victo
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