{"id":76923,"date":"2017-05-11T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/?p=55971"},"modified":"2017-05-11T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T23:06:00","slug":"novak-djokovic-im-looking-forward-to-the-next-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/novak-djokovic-im-looking-forward-to-the-next-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic: “I’m looking forward to the next round”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Serbian Novak Djokovic has started his title defence at the Mutua Madrid Open with a three-set victory over Spaniard Nicol\u00e1s Almagro (6-1, 4-6, 7-5). He came through his match on the Caja M\u00e1gica\u2019s Manolo Santana Centre Court to progress to the last sixteen of the Madrid Masters 1000.<\/span><\/p>\n

Djokovic was smiling and relaxed in his press conference after winning a tight encounter in the final set. \u201cI was very lucky to win this match. The 3-0 I the final set was not a favourable situation. I was very focused and I was lucky\u201d. The Serb was also full of praise for the Murcia native\u2019s performance. \u201cIt\u2019s tough to play Nico on any surface. He has a lot of strength in his shots, a lot of accuracy. He can hit just as well from both corners\u201d. It was his opponent\u2019s tennis on the clay that made the world number two feel \u201chappy about winning this match because it was a very complicated match against a strong player\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked how he felt after the clash, Nole said he is \u201caware that I\u2019m not playing at my best, but I believe in myself\u201d. He insisted that he always tries to take positives. \u201cI know I can identify things that haven\u2019t gone the way I wanted them in the game\u201d. Despite the complications throughout the clash, Djokovic was \u201chappy with the way I handled the pressure. I did my work at the end of the match, so I\u2019m looking forward to the next round\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

His motivation to continue working hard is returning to the number one spot: \u201cI\u2019m not the only one who wants that position. Andy Murray is there right now. The hard work pays off. He\u2019s obviously a very experienced player. And you have Rafa coming back now, playing at a very high level, and Roger\u2026\u201d. He knows that it is very difficult because on top of them, there are \u201cthe other players, young players that are coming up, they\u2019re very hungry\u201d. He spoke of the pressure of being at the top. \u201cWhen you\u2019re at the top you always feel like you are being chased, like someone wants to take away that spot from you, which is normal. That\u2019s how it works. I kind of channelled that feeling to motivate myself to find the necessary strength to stay committed and get as far as I can\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Djokovic also answered questions about the rumours that Andre Agassi will be his next coach. Without wanting to go into details, the Serbian said that he understands that there is speculation about it, but that he will still not say who will fill the position. He did say that he thinks he will have someone \u201cby the French Open\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Serbian Novak Djokovic has started his title defence at the Mutua Madrid Open with a three-set victory over Spaniard Nicol\u00e1s Almagro (6-1, 4-6, 7-5). He came through his match on the Caja M\u00e1gica\u2019s Manolo Santana Centre Court to progress to the last sixteen of the Madrid Masters 1000. Djokovic was smiling and relaxed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,202],"tags":[750,45],"class_list":["post-76923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mutua-news","category-sin-categoria-en","tag-nico-almagro-en","tag-novak-djokovic-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}