{"id":383,"date":"2013-04-22T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:20:03","slug":"novak-djokovic-the-crown-prince-of-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/novak-djokovic-the-crown-prince-of-monte-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic &#8211; The Crown Prince of Monte Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watched by the royalty of Monaco, Novak Djokovic ended Rafael Nadal&#8217;s amazing 8 year winning streak at Monte Carlo with a dominant display.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal suffered his first loss since a 2003 defeat at the hands of Gaston Gaudio. 10 years and 46 matches later, he fell to World #1 Djokovic in straight sets 6-2 7-6 in just under two hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s such a great pleasure to win here, it&#8217;s very special,&#8221; said Djokovic, a native of Serbia but primarily based in the principality.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, 25, wasted no time in setting out his intentions &#8211; racing out to take the first set 6-2 in 46 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The second set was a more competitive affair, with Nadal breaking the Djokovic serve and giving himself a chance to level up the match at 5-4. However, Djokovic broke straight back, forcing a tie-break, which he won at a canter &#8211; 7-1.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal moves onto Barcelona next, with the next opportunity of a clash between the two titans coming at Madrid.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis Discussions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=48\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to discuss this and more with fellow tennis fans our discussion boards.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched by the royalty of Monaco, Novak Djokovic ended Rafael Nadal&#8217;s amazing 8 year winning streak at Monte Carlo with a dominant display. Nadal suffered his first loss since a 2003 defeat at the hands of Gaston Gaudio. 10 years and 46 matches later, he fell to World #1 Djokovic in straight sets 6-2 7-6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,781,14,63,78,779],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-79","tag-atp","tag-monte-carlo","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}