{"id":121294,"date":"2019-05-30T16:20:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=121294"},"modified":"2019-05-30T21:53:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:53:31","slug":"novak-into-french-open-third-round-with-straight-sets-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-into-french-open-third-round-with-straight-sets-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak into French Open third round with straight sets win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic continued his quest for the &#8220;Nole Slam\u201d, following a 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 win over Switzerland&#8217;s Henri Laaksonen at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland Garros<\/a> on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2016 champion played comfortably on Court Suzanne Lenglen, the second biggest show court in Paris, after Court Philippe Chatrier.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic broke twice in each set, having surrendered serve once during the one hour, 33-minute clash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI think I served well. I used my forehand from different parts of the court really well. Solid backhand. Just two very solid matches. I didn&#8217;t drop my level too much. I didn&#8217;t spend too much time on the court. So all is going in the right direction,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-6), double faults (2-1), winners (21-24), unforced errors (24-35), total points won (85-63).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak\u2019s next opponent in the third round of Roland Garros on Saturday will be Italian qualifier Salvatore Caruso (ATP #147). <\/strong>They have never met before.<\/p>\n<p>Caruso eliminated 26th seed from France, Gilles Simon, in straight sets.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of their round 32 match and first meeting with Caruso, Nole said: <strong>\u201cI\u2019ve never trained with him. I don&#8217;t know much about him, to be honest. I&#8217;m going to have to do my homework, do analysis on him. I watched him play a little bit today when I was waiting for my match. I saw he came from qualifications. He won what, now, five matches? So there is a lot of confidence. He has nothing to lose. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s going to be very motivated to play his best.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak continued his quest for the &#8220;Nole Slam\u201d, following a 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 win over Switzerland&#8217;s Henri Laaksonen. His next opponent will be Italian qualifier Salvatore Caruso (#147)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":121286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011211,101010469,101012141,101013065,113],"class_list":["post-121294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris","tag-roland-garros-2019-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121294","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=121294"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121316,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121294\/revisions\/121316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}