{"id":110093,"date":"2018-10-09T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=110093"},"modified":"2018-10-10T11:50:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T09:50:16","slug":"novak-opens-shanghai-campaign-with-straight-sets-win-over-chardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-opens-shanghai-campaign-with-straight-sets-win-over-chardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak opens Shanghai campaign with straight sets win over Chardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Second seed Novak Djokovic began his quest for a record fourth <a href=\"http:\/\/en.shanghairolexmasters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Shanghai Masters<\/a> championship when he defeated Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 7-5 on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star is now 12-0 in matches and 28-0 in sets against the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<p>Novak broke twice in the first set and once in the second, having denied his rival a single break point opportunity during the one hour, 24-minute contest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI&#8217;m very grateful to play on a high level. I think that I&#8217;m very close to my best, you know, and my best changes day to day. I can always strive to be the best I can be on that given day. Today&#8217;s performance was pretty close to that,&#8221;<\/strong> said Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-7), double faults (2-3), winners (17-25), unforced errors (13-28), total points won (66-52).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak goes on to meet no.16 seed Marco Cecchinato (ITA) in the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event last 16 on Thursday. Cecchinato beat Hyeon Chung (KOR) 4-6, 7-6, 7-6 in the second round.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second seed Novak Djokovic began his quest for a record fourth Rolex Shanghai Masters championship when he defeated Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 7-5 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":110167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011267,101011697,101012348,101012357],"class_list":["post-110093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-second-round-en","tag-shanghai-en","tag-shanghai-rolex-masters-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110093","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=110093"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110175,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110093\/revisions\/110175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}