{"id":1229,"date":"2011-03-26T01:48:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T00:48:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:27:41","slug":"novak-continues-phenomenal-run-faces-blake-in-r3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-continues-phenomenal-run-faces-blake-in-r3\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak continues phenomenal run, faces Blake in R3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/856f.jpg>{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Nole walks out on to the court, wearing a t-shirt for Japan Relief (Photos: Getty Images)<\/font>{nl}{nl}<b>World no.2 Novak Djokovic continued his fantastic winning streak with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Uzbekistan\u2019s Denis Istomin in just 48 minutes.{nl}<\/b>{nl}He is 19-0 on the season so far, winning all three of the tournaments he has entered &#8211; the Australian Open, Dubai and Indian Wells.{nl}{nl}With this win, Djokovic equals the third-longest winning streak to start a season in the last 30 years, 19 wins in a row (tied with John McEnroe in 1985).{nl}{nl}Nole raced through the first set with a triple break for 6-0 in 20 minutes.{nl}{nl}Istomin managed to win one game in the second set, the 23-year-old Belgrade native served it out 6-1.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;Everything was working perfect,&#8221;<\/b> Djokovic said after the match. <b>&#8220;Most of the shots I was hitting were winners, so I wasn&#8217;t making a lot of mistakes.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;I&#8217;m fresh mentally, motivated to have even more success.  I&#8217;m looking to upcoming challenges.  I know it&#8217;s only been a couple of months of the year, but I have been playing great, and I want to keep on doing that.&#8221; <\/b>{nl}{nl}Novak\u2019s third round rival is former world no.4, currently ranked no.173 James Blake. The American beat Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil 2-6, 6-4, 7-6(6).{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Blake have met twice, Nole won both matches, at Olympic Games in Beijing 2008, and US Open 2010.{nl}{nl}<img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/856c.jpg>{nl}{nl}<img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/856d.jpg>{nl}{nl}<img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/856e.jpg><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.2 Novak Djokovic continued his fantastic winning streak with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Uzbekistan\u2019s Denis Istomin in just 48 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011940],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-miami-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28095,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/28095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}