{"id":1008,"date":"2010-04-27T16:06:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:48:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:48:47","slug":"fantastic-novak-storms-into-third-round-of-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/fantastic-novak-storms-into-third-round-of-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Novak storms into third round of Rome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/482.jpg> {nl}{nl}Novak Djokovic, no.2 seed in Rome, advanced to the third round of Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia on Tuesday afternoon, with a convincing 6-1, 6-1 victory over world no.46  Jeremy Chardy.{nl}{nl}The match lasted only 59 minutes, Novak now leads 4-0 in head-to-heads with the Frenchman.{nl}{nl}Novak made two breaks in the first set, in the second and sixth game and won it 6-1 in just 26 minutes. The best Serbian tennis player hit 10 winners in that period, six more than Chardy, and made 9 unforced errors, three less than the Frenchman.{nl}{nl}Chardy couldn\u2019t find a solution for Djokovic\u2019s game till the end of the match. Novak was leading 4-0 with double break in the second set. The final result was the same, 6-1.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;The sooner you finish the happier you are,&#8221;<\/b> said Djokovic, who reached the semi-finals at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters two weeks ago. <b>&#8220;I&#8217;ve played in this tournament many times so you don&#8217;t need many hours to get used to the court.&#8221;{nl}{nl}&#8221;Always in your first match [at] a tournament you don&#8217;t know what to expect, especially [when you] play against a player with such a hard serve. It can be difficult but I was very focused right from the first moment.&#8221; {nl}{nl}&#8221;I think [my return] was one of the keys today. I knew he was going to serve well, so I needed to return well to be in control of the match.&#8221;<\/b>{nl} {nl}ATP world no.2 will play his third round match on Thursday. His rival will be either no.14 seed American John Isner or Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci.{nl}{nl}The new impressive centre court was officially inaugurated on Tuesday before play got under way. {nl}{nl} <img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/484.jpg><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic, no.2 seed in Rome, advanced to the third round of Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia on Tuesday afternoon, with a convincing 6-1, 6-1 victory over world no.46  Jeremy Chardy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012064],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-rome-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","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=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28295,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/28295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}