{"id":1002,"date":"2010-04-14T13:55:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T12:55:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:49:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:49:35","slug":"djokovic-advances-meets-wawrinka-in-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/djokovic-advances-meets-wawrinka-in-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic advances, meets Wawrinka in third round!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/467.jpg> {nl}{nl}Top-seeded Novak Djokovic began quest for title with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over world no.67 Frenchman Florent Serra in 1 hour and 23 minutes at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters on Wednesday.{nl}{nl}Djokovic started strongly, breaking Serra\u2019s service twice, in the second and fourth game for 4-0 lead. The Frenchman broke back once in the fifth game, but the 22-year-old Serb made one more break in the eighth game to take the first set 6-2 in very convincing fashion.{nl}{nl}Nole capitalised on a break point in the second game of the second set for 2-0, but Serra fought back immediately and then held to level the result. ATP world no.2 made a crucial break in the eighth game and then served out the match 6-3.{nl}{nl}&#8221;I have to be happy with the game because it&#8217;s the first clay court match &#8211; not including Davis Cup &#8211; since Roland Garros last year,&#8221; said Djokovic after the match. &#8220;Some things can be better, like serve and maybe movements but I&#8217;m still adjusting to the surface and conditions.&#8221;{nl}{nl}Statistics: aces (2:2), double faults (4:5), winners (25:19), unforced errors (23:33).{nl}{nl}Novak will face no.13 seed Stanislas Wawrinka for a place in the quarterfinals. The Swiss beat Latvian Ernests Gulbis in straight sets 6-1, 6-4.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Wawrinka have met nine times, Nole leads 7-2.{nl}{nl}Novak and Viktor lost to no.4 seeds Dick Norman (BEL) and Wesley Moodie (RSA) 6-2, 4-6, 8-10 in the second round of doubles competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-seeded Novak Djokovic began quest for title with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over world no.67 Frenchman Florent Serra in 1 hour and 23 minutes at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1125],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-monte-carlo-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28302,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/28302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}