{"id":1021,"date":"2010-05-24T15:28:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:47:13","slug":"novak-plays-nishikori-in-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-plays-nishikori-in-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak plays Nishikori in second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/500.jpg> {nl}{nl}World no.3 Novak Djokovic is through to the second round of the second Grand Slam of the season-Roland Garros with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over world no.73 Evgeny Korolev of Kazakhstan in 2 hours and  8 minutes.{nl}{nl}Novak cruised through the first set in just 27 minutes, breaking Korolev in the second and sixth game for 6-1.{nl}{nl}The 23-year-old Belgrade native was the first to make a break in the third game of the second set, but Korolev fought back immediately to level the result and broke Djokovic\u2019s serve once again in the eighth game for 5-3 lead. He took the set 6-3 in 44 minutes.{nl}{nl}Nole found his rhythm again in the third set and with two breaks, in the second and fourth game, won it convincingly 6-1.{nl}{nl}Third-seeded Serb broke Korolev\u2019s serve again twice in the fourth set for 6-3 and first win at this year\u2019s French Open.{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cI haven&#8217;t played a real match since Rome this year, I think. I knew it&#8217;s gonna be a little bit different feeling stepping on the court and playing a match than practicing in last two weeks. I felt the ball really well in the practice. Right now I feel physically fit and ready to go the distance,\u201d said Novak after the match. \u201cI had ups and downs. I didn&#8217;t play a good second set, but, you know, I overcome it. I overcome it, I think. From the start of the third set I started playing better, started serving better. It&#8217;s important, you know. It&#8217;s going slowly, but I have to be positive about it.\u201d<\/b>{nl}{nl}About tournament favorites and his expectations Nole said:{nl}{nl}<i>\u201cFederer and Nadal are obviously the two best players in the world and two biggest favorites to win the title. But if I&#8217;m able to play my best and if I&#8217;m able to maintain that good level of the performance, I think I have a good chance to go far in the second week.\u201d<\/i>{nl}{nl}Match statistics: aces (7-4), winners ( 23-24), unforced errors (21-38), total points won ( 108-82){nl}{nl}Novak will play against Kei Nishikori (JPN) in the second round. World no.246 beat Santiago Giraldo (COL) 2-6, 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-2, 6-4.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Nishikori have never met before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.3 Novak Djokovic is through to the second round of the second Grand Slam of the season-Roland Garros with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over world no.73 Evgeny Korolev of Kazakhstan in 2 hours and  8 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012069],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-roland-garros-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","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=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28283,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/28283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}