{"id":102997,"date":"2018-06-19T16:56:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T14:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=102997"},"modified":"2018-06-20T19:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T17:31:26","slug":"novak-makes-winning-return-to-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-makes-winning-return-to-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak makes winning return to Queen&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak Djokovic, competing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/major-events\/fever-tree-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fever-Tree Championships<\/a> for the first time since 2010, knocked out John Millman of Australia 6-2, 6-1 on Tuesday in just 64 minutes for a place in the second round.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On his fourth appearance at the Queen&#8217;s Club, Novak broke twice in the first set and three times in the second, having denied his rival a single break point opportunity during their first career meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt was a good match,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>&#8220;The focus was there, I had the right intensity every shot. Every shot was working really beautifully. I thought I put a lot of pressure on him, on his service games, because I was getting a lot of returns back in play. Also I was quite solid on my returns, my strokes, and he was on the back foot from the beginning of the point. I&#8217;m very pleased to be able to start off the grass court season this way at the tournament where I haven&#8217;t participated for eight years.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-2), double faults (2-3), winners (13-9), unforced errors (15-18), total points won (63-39).<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the next round, the former world no.1 and 2008 Queen\u2019s runner-up will face a stiff test in grass-court standout, second seed Grigor Dimitrov, who needed three sets to overcome Damir Dzumhur 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the doubles competition, Nole and Stan Wawrinka lost their first round match to Marcus Daniell and Wesley Koolhof 4-6, 6-7 (2).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak cruised through Queen&#8217;s opener, following a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Australian qualifier John Millman.  In the next round, the 2008 runner-up will face second seed Grigor Dimitrov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":102984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,310,101012193,1123,101012985],"class_list":["post-102997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-first-round","tag-london-en","tag-queens","tag-the-fever-tree-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102997","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=102997"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103089,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102997\/revisions\/103089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}