{"id":5240,"date":"2013-12-29T17:24:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:57:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:57:47","slug":"djokovic-wins-abu-dhabi-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/djokovic-wins-abu-dhabi-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic Wins Abu Dhabi Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic has opened the new season by defeating Spain&#8217;s David Ferrer 7-5, 6-2 at the Abu Dhabi Exhibition tournament in 82 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrer who came into the final on the back of a victory over World No. 1 Rafael Nadal had led 4-2 in the first set but a succession of unforced errors proved his undoing as Djokovic took control of the match and swept to victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very satisfied with the way I played and I always enjoy coming back here,&#8221; stated the Serb, who added $250,000 to his bank balance in the process.<\/p>\n<p>New coach Boris Becker was in attendance, and will be encouraged by the Djokovic&#8217;s early season form.<\/p>\n<p>In the third place playoff match, Nadal defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic has opened the new season by defeating Spain&#8217;s David Ferrer 7-5, 6-2 at the Abu Dhabi Exhibition tournament in 82 minutes. Ferrer who came into the final on the back of a victory over World No. 1 Rafael Nadal had led 4-2 in the first set but a succession of unforced errors proved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[482,117,72,483,63],"class_list":["post-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-david-ferrer","tag-exhibition","tag-invitation","tag-novak-djokovic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","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=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}