{"id":122738,"date":"2019-07-05T19:45:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=122738"},"modified":"2019-07-05T23:43:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:43:36","slug":"novak-tops-hurkacz-for-spot-in-the-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-tops-hurkacz-for-spot-in-the-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak tops Hurkacz for spot in the last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic continued his top form when he defeated talented Hubert Hurkacz 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4 in third-round action on Friday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak needed three hours to eliminate the 48th-ranked Pole, improving to a 2-0 H2H mark. The Serbian star is through to the second week at The All England Club for the 12th time.<\/p>\n<p>Novak won the opening set with a break in the 11th game. The second set went with serve. The 22-year-old from Wroclaw clinched a tie-break to level the contest.<\/p>\n<p>The third set was a one-way traffic. Djokovic won it 6-1, to take a two sets to one lead on Court No.1.<\/p>\n<p>A break in the third game of the fourth set was enough for the world no.1 to progress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;He was fighting. He was playing well, serving well and hitting clean and accurate shots,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;It was a great fight the first couple of sets. He deserved to win the second one. I tried to focus on one point at a time, I just wanted to hold my serve and make him play. I played the perfect third set and also my fourth set was solid. I&#8217;m really pleased with the performance.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (9-13), double faults (8-7), winners (45-48), unforced errors (39-41), total points won (145-122).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will play against world no.66 Ugo Humbert (FRA) in the last 16 on Monday. Humbert beat no.19 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) in straight sets on Friday.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak is through to the second week at The All England Club for the 12th time. The top seed and defending champion defeated talented Hubert Hurkacz 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4 to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":122734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011546,101010469,101012193,101011449,1039,101013072],"class_list":["post-122738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-defending-champion-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-the-championships-en","tag-third-round","tag-wimbledon-2019-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122738","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=122738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122795,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122738\/revisions\/122795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}