{"id":101867,"date":"2018-05-30T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=101867"},"modified":"2018-05-30T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:26:39","slug":"novak-into-french-open-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-into-french-open-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak into French Open third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak Djokovic emerged victorious from a tricky second round encounter with Spanish qualifier Jaume Munar as he won 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-4 after being challenged in the first set.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2016 titlist needed two hours and 18 minutes to advance at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French Open<\/a> on Wednesday. Munar made Nole work for every point in some lengthy and at times spectacular rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic was broken early on, but responded well clinching four straight games. He was serving for the set at 5-3 when the 21-year-old Barcelona resident broke him for the second time and forced a tie-breaker. It was a flawless tiebreak from the no.20 seed. The Serbian star raced to a 6-0 lead and won it 7-1 after 47 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>Riding the wave of momentum, Novak broke in crucial moments of the second and third sets and closed them 6-4, 6-4, moving into the last 32 for the 13th time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAll the credit to him for fighting. He came in well prepared, ready to battle,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>\u201cI didn&#8217;t play so great, but at the right time, in all three sets, I managed to come up with good enough game to win it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (3-3), double faults (5-3), winners (39-28), unforced errors (33-23), total points won (107-86).<\/p>\n<p><strong>He will next meet another Spaniard, 13th seed Roberto Bautista Agut, against whom he owns a 6-1 H2H record.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole Jun desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Calendar_June2018.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 titlist emerged victorious from a tricky encounter with Jaume Munar as he won 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-4 after being challenged in the opening set. Next up is no.13 seed Roberto Bautista Agut, against whom he owns a 6-1 H2H record<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011211,101010469,101012141,101012979,113],"class_list":["post-101867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris","tag-roland-garros-2018-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101867","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=101867"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101908,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101867\/revisions\/101908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}