{"id":119239,"date":"2019-04-16T18:06:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=119239"},"modified":"2019-04-17T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:46:47","slug":"novak-books-last-16-spot-in-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-books-last-16-spot-in-monte-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak books last 16 spot in Monte-Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Novak Djokovic recorded his 14th tour-level victory of 2019 (14-3) and first on clay, after two hours, 36-minute win over Philipp Kohlschreiber at the <a href=\"http:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The two-time former champion defeated the 40th ranked German for the ninth time in 11 meetings, recording a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 second round triumph.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak was made to work hard on Court Rainier III for his 850th career match win.<\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 claimed the only break of the opening set at 4-3 and served it out to love after 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Neither player was able to find comfort on serve in the second set, with seven consecutive breaks. Nole recovered from a break down on three occasions, but was broken for the fourth time and Kohlschreiber took the contest to a deciding third set.<\/p>\n<p>A break in the first game brought him the win, he used the fifth match point to advance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I had ups and downs and in a way felt a bit rusty on the court. I had a tough opponent, of course. Philipp beat me in Indian Wells. It was a match that happened less than a month ago, so of course it was in the back of my mind a bit,&#8221;<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>&#8220;I thought I should have maybe stepped in and played a bit more aggressive in the second set, but credit to him for mixing up the pace and playing well. I&#8217;ll take this win. Hopefully I can play slightly better in the next round, because if I want to go deep in the tournament, I definitely have to up my game.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (1-3), double faults (8-2), winners (30-27), unforced errors (38-37), total points won (109-98).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a place in the ATP Masters 1000 event quarters, Novak faces Taylor Fritz (ATP #65) on Thursday. The American beat Diego Schwartzman (ARG) 6-4, 6-2 in R2.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed and world no.1 recorded his 14th tour-level victory of 2019 (14-3) and first on clay, after a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 win over Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":119254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011267,101012329,101013052,101011697],"class_list":["post-119239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-monte-carlo-en","tag-rolex-monte-carlo-masters-en","tag-second-round-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119239","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=119239"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119309,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119239\/revisions\/119309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}