{"id":3178,"date":"2023-04-16T15:02:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T13:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/news\/kecmanovic-i-hope-to-meet-nole-in-the-semifinal\/"},"modified":"2023-04-16T18:26:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T16:26:52","slug":"kecmanovic-i-hope-to-meet-nole-in-the-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/news\/kecmanovic-i-hope-to-meet-nole-in-the-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kecmanovic: I hope to meet Nole in the semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miomir Kecmanovic will skip the first round but he is, together with the rest of the Serbian tennis players, including Novak Djokovic, in the upper part of the draw. The first impression regarding the Srpska Open tournament of the majority of tennis players is the new appearance of the city of Banjaluka that looks fantastic despite a rainy couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>Miomir Kecmanovic has shared the same impression and used this opportunity to pay compliments to the organisers of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Banjaluka looks fantastic. Everything is new and I\u2019m happy to be here. I believe that good tennis will be played at this tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Kecmanovic has not yet stepped onto the court and plans to do that later during the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I haven\u2019t practiced yet and I\u2019m yet to step onto the tennis court. Clay is slow, it is difficult, but it\u2019s something to be expected. We\u2019ll see how it goes. I just hope it doesn\u2019t rain.<\/p>\n<p>The draw has again gathered all Serbian players in the upper part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; To tell you the truth, I don\u2019t find that strange. Somehow, we always end up in the same part of the draw. This time I can take a step forward; I don\u2019t have to play against Novak Djokovic in the quarter-final, but in the semi-final. I plan to compete in Madrid and Rome after this tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Kecmanovic played both in the singles and the doubles in Estoril but did not lift any trophies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I\u2019m satisfied with my season on clay. I play well. I\u2019m glad to be making better results on this surface as well and that I feel very confident. I want to continue in the same direction and play good tennis.<\/p>\n<p>In Monte Carlo, Miomir Kecmanovic lost to Lorenzo Musetti in the first round 7-6 (1), 6-0. The second set was especially painful for Kecmanovic (7:6,6:0).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; What happened in Monte Carlo? I played a lot of matches, almost 11 matches, in five days. I was really exhausted back then.<\/p>\n<p>The doubles competition will also be interesting for Kecmanovic. His doubles partner at the Srpska Open will be Nikola Cacic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Yes. I play in the doubles with Nikola Cacic. We play well together, but I \u2018m yet to see whether I\u2019ll have to be the one to \u201cbear the brunt\u201d of our doubles team again, Kecmanovic concluded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miomir Kecmanovic will skip the first round but he is, together with the rest of the Serbian tennis players, including Novak Djokovic, in the upper part of the draw. The first impression regarding the Srpska Open tournament of the majority of tennis players is the new appearance of the city of Banjaluka that looks fantastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}