{"id":115620,"date":"2019-01-19T08:55:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T07:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=115620"},"modified":"2019-01-19T13:13:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T12:13:33","slug":"novak-advances-to-last-16-in-melbourne-next-medvedev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-advances-to-last-16-in-melbourne-next-medvedev\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak advances to last 16 in Melbourne, next Medvedev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak lost his first set of the tournament, but re-established his dominance to storm past 25th seed Denis Shapovalov in two hours and 22 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic is into his 12th <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Open<\/a> fourth round, following a 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 win over NextGenATP Canadian on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top seed was on cruise control, leading Shapovalov 6-3, 6-4, 4-1 in their afternoon showdown on Rod Laver Arena, but from the moment the Serb was two games away from the win, Shapovalov won five games in a row to take the third set.<\/p>\n<p>Novak regrouped quickly and sprinted to the finish line. He was too good in the fourth set, playing flawless tennis to pull clear 6-0 in just 26 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I just tried to stay in the moment and weather the storm,&#8221; <\/strong>Novak said of unexpectedly dropping the third set.<strong> &#8220;Denis played well towards the end of the third. I made some unforced errors, got him back in the match. He showed his quality and why he is one of the players we&#8217;ll be seeing a lot in the future.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (5-6), double faults (4-5), winners (16-21), unforced errors (33-57), total points won (113-85).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aWCyAHD6a7M\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will meet 15th seed Daniil Medvedev on Monday for a place in the quarter-finals.<\/strong> The 14-time Grand Slam titlist leads their ATP H2H series 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Russian upset no.21 seed David Goffin in straight sets 6-2, 7-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djokovic reached the fourth round in Melbourne for the 12th time in his career, following a 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 win over Denis Shapovalov. The six-time champion will meet 15th seed Daniil Medvedev (H2H 2-0) for a place in the quarter-finals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":115613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012354,101013041,101010469,101012415,1039],"class_list":["post-115620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australia-en","tag-australian-open-2019-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-melbourne-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115620","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=115620"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115737,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115620\/revisions\/115737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}