{"id":106133,"date":"2018-08-08T19:38:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T17:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=106133"},"modified":"2018-08-09T22:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:24:48","slug":"rogers-cup-novak-moves-into-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rogers-cup-novak-moves-into-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Cup: Novak moves into last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No.9 seed Novak Djokovic continued his bid for a fifth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerscup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogers Cup<\/a> crown with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Peter Polansky on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The four-time former titlist broke once in each set to beat the home favourite and progress into the last 16 in one hour and 24 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star was perfect 6\/6 on net approaches. He is now leading 2-0 against the Canadian in H2H meetings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I served well in the moments when I really needed it and I was looking for the first serve,&#8221;<\/strong> said Djokovic. &#8220;<strong>I found pretty good accuracy and angles with the first serve, and also my second serve worked pretty well. Overall my game was so-and-so. In the moments when I needed to step it up, I did.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (7-0), double faults (2-2), winners (23-9), unforced errors (29-26), total points won (64-49).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nole improved to 37-6 at the event and plays 19-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, ATP #27) for a place in the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament quarters. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NextGenATP star defeated seventh seed Dominic Thiem (AUT) in straight sets. Novak and Tsitsipas have never met before.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: ATP World Tour<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole continued his bid for a fifth Rogers Cup crown with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Peter Polansky in one hour and 24 minutes. He will take on NextGenATP star Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, ATP #27) for a place in the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament quarters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":106131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011267,101011261,113,101012577],"class_list":["post-106133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rogers-cup-en","tag-second-round","tag-toronto-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106133","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=106133"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106225,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106133\/revisions\/106225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}