{"id":119792,"date":"2019-05-07T15:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=119792"},"modified":"2019-05-08T17:25:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:25:37","slug":"novak-opens-madrid-masters-campaign-with-straight-sets-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-opens-madrid-masters-campaign-with-straight-sets-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak opens Madrid Masters campaign with straight sets win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Novak Djokovic needed only 65 minutes to advance to the third round at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madrid-open.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mutua Madrid Open<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian star defeated American qualifier Taylor Fritz in straight sets 6-4, 6-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/djokovic-celebrates-250th-week-at-no-1-in-atp-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrating his 250th week at no.1 in the ATP Rankings<\/a>, broke once in the first set and twice in the second, to clinch his 16th match win in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time former champion dominated the second career meeting between the two, winning 85% of points on first serve and 100% of net approaches (7\/7).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The beginning of the match was kind of close and then I think 3-all, when I managed to make the break, and saved a break point in the next game, I thought that was the turnaround, the turning point in the match,&#8221;<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>&#8220;The second set I read his serve better and just managed to put an extra ball in to the court and he made a lot of unforced errors. I don&#8217;t think he was playing at his best today, but I think it was a solid opening match for me in the tournament.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (7-4), double faults (2-1), winners (16-13), unforced errors (12-23), total points won (63-43).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a place in the ATP Masters 1000 event quarter-final, Novak will play against world no.47 Jeremy Chardy (H2H 12-0) on Thursday. <\/strong>The Frenchman eliminated Diego Schwartzman (6-1, 6-2).<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole defeated American qualifier Taylor Fritz in straight sets 6-4, 6-2 in just 65 minutes to move into the third round at the Mutua Madrid Open. The top-seeded Serbian star is celebrating his 250th week at no.1 in the ATP Rankings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":119790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012203,101011267,101013053,113],"class_list":["post-119792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-madrid-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-mutua-madrid-open-2019-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119792","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=119792"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119884,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119792\/revisions\/119884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}