{"id":104060,"date":"2018-07-05T17:06:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T15:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=104060"},"modified":"2018-07-05T23:06:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T21:06:56","slug":"novak-eases-into-third-round-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-eases-into-third-round-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak eases into third round at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>12-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic notched his 60th match win at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Championships<\/a> following a convincing 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 victory over world no.126 Horacio Zeballos on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic became just the fifth man to win 60 times at the All England Club, alongside Roger Federer (93), Jimmy Connors (84), Boris Becker (71) and Pete Sampras (63).<\/p>\n<p>Zeballos had no answer to Novak&#8217;s brilliant performance. The 12th seed proved he is returning to imperious form as he broke his rival twice in each set.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Belgrade native won 41 of 46 first-serve points and saved all three break points he faced to progress into the third round after one hour and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>He improved to a 19-9 record on the season and now leads his H2H series with the Argentine 2-0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI&#8217;m very pleased with the way I played. I thought my serve was working really well. Playing on grass, obviously having 10-plus aces in a match, it&#8217;s not a common feeling that I get to experience a lot. It helps me relax in other parts of my game,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (15-7), double faults (0-5), winners (31-21), unforced errors (4-28), total points won (89-53).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will meet British no.1 and 21st seed Kyle Edmund on Saturday for a spot in the Round of 16. It will be their fourth career meeting, Nole leads 3-1.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12-time Grand Slam champion notched his 60th match win at The Championships following a convincing 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 victory over world no.126 Horacio Zeballos. He will meet 21st seed Kyle Edmund on Saturday for a spot in the Round of 16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":104027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012193,101011445,1039,101012990],"class_list":["post-104060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-the-championships","tag-third-round","tag-wimbledon-2018-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104060","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=104060"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104080,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104060\/revisions\/104080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}