{"id":33083,"date":"2021-02-09T06:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T07:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=33083"},"modified":"2021-02-09T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T16:13:07","slug":"nadal-smokes-serbian-in-big-open-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=33083","title":{"rendered":"Nadal smokes Serbian in big Open statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spanish legend Rafael Nadal has put his injury troubles behind him en route to a commanding first-round victory at the Australian Open<\/a>, cruising past Serbian Laslo Djere 6-3, 6-4, 6-1<\/a> inside two hours.<\/p>\n

The world No.2 withdrew from the ATP Cup due to a "stiff low back" and said on Sunday he had been "suffering" for 15 days, but he didn't show any signs of hindrance in his 80th Australian Open match.<\/p>\n

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Nadal's trademark forehand was invincible in the opening set, he overcame three break points in the second and he breezed through the third as Djere crumbled.<\/p>\n

Nadal said he would have to manage his back troubles throughout the Open.<\/p>\n

"My back is not perfect, as I said a couple of days ago. Every day that I'm able to go through, probably there are more chances to get better," Nadal said in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n

"That's the thing now. There is always a chance to improve, and that's why I'm here playing and fighting to try to get better and then give myself a chance.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1359031395616718848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n

"Today it's not great. I needed to change a little bit the motion of my serve. That's what I tried to survive that condition today.<\/p>\n

"Tomorrow a day off. After tomorrow, another match. I need to go day to day and just try to stay positive.<\/p>\n

"Of course every day that I am trying to stay here longer is a day with a chance to get better finally, so that's what I am trying. Trying to do all the things possible to be ready for compete, for what I came here."<\/p>\n

The 20-time Grand Slam champion is now set to meet the winner of Michael Mmoh and Viktor Troicki in the second round.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1359028213368803334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n

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Spanish legend Rafael Nadal has put his injury troubles behind him en route to a commanding first-round victory at the Australian Open, cruising past Serbian […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33084,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33083\/revisions\/33084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}