{"id":77867,"date":"2021-05-29T22:35:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T22:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=77867"},"modified":"2021-05-29T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T22:57:17","slug":"djokovic-wins-home-town-title-in-major-warm-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=77867","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic wins home town title in major warm-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic warmed up for the French Open by beating Alex Molcan 6-4 6-3 to take his 83rd career title on Sunday (AEST) on home soil at <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/live-scores\/belgrade-open-2021\/11919\" title=\"the Belgrade Open\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Belgrade Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked Djokovic struggled on serve in the first set as he was broken three times by his Slovakian opponent. <\/p>\n<p>Djokovic was also broken once in the second set by Molcan, the 255th-ranked qualifier playing his first tour-level final, but was reliably able to dominate Molcan&#x27;s serve for a total six breaks in the match.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"fc727cc9-7198-4f5a-ae65-07f0998ad541\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/fc727cc9-7198-4f5a-ae65-07f0998ad541\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s the third career title for Djokovic in his home nation after he won the Serbia Open, a different tournament in the same city, in 2009 and 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is drawn against Tennys Sandgren of the United States in the first round at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"0dad56a8-c48c-4753-9bd9-6d82b93e862c\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0dad56a8-c48c-4753-9bd9-6d82b93e862c\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Novak Djokovic warmed up for the French Open by beating Alex Molcan 6-4 6-3 to take his 83rd career title on Sunday (AEST) on home <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=77867\" title=\"Djokovic wins home town title in major warm-up\">[&#8230;]<\/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\/77867"}],"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=77867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77869,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77867\/revisions\/77869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}