{"id":101660,"date":"2018-05-28T15:58:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=101660"},"modified":"2018-05-28T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T16:02:56","slug":"novak-advances-at-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-advances-at-roland-garros\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak advances at Roland Garros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole won his opening match at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland Garros<\/a> in Paris on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No.20 seed and 2016 champion Novak Djokovic captured his 60th match win at the French Open, defeating Brazilian qualifier Rogerio Dutra Silva 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in two hours and five minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak got off to a slow start on Philippe-Chatrier Court, but rebounded with a solid first round performance to advance. Djokovic rallied from a break deficit in the first and second sets. After falling 0-2 behind, the 31-year-old Serbian star managed to break his hard-hitting rival twice in both sets and grabbed a 4-2 lead in the third. The Brazilian fought back to level at 4-all, but Nole used his opportunity in the ninth game, converted another break point and served it out to reach the second round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m still a bit rusty on the court and I need to improve. Hopefully the level will increase when the matches go on. Maybe I was too flat and relaxed. You don&#8217;t always feel your best, but you try to get your best out of it,&#8221; <\/strong>Novak said in a post-match interview.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (6-4), double faults (1-5), winners (37-21), unforced errors (36-32), total points won (106-80).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will play world no.155 Jaume Munar on Wednesday. The Spanish qualifier beat his compatriot David Ferrer after a five-set battle (3-6, 3-6, 7-6, 7-6, 7-5).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will be the first career meeting between the two.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No.20 seed and 2016 champion won his opening match at Roland Garros in Paris on Monday, beating Brazilian qualifier Rogerio Dutra Silva 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in two hours and five minutes. He next faces qualifier from Spain Jaume Munar (Q, ATP #155)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[310,101011211,101010469,101012141,101012979],"class_list":["post-101660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-first-round","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris","tag-roland-garros-2018-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101660","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101660"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101758,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101660\/revisions\/101758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}