{"id":1231,"date":"2011-03-28T04:54:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T03:54:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:27:16","slug":"novak-crushes-blake-meets-troicki-in-r4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-crushes-blake-meets-troicki-in-r4\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak crushes Blake, meets Troicki in R4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/856k.jpg> {nl}{nl}<b>Second-seeded Novak Djokovic defeated American wild card and home favourite James Blake in straight sets 6-2, 6-0 in only 52 minutes in their third career meeting to reach the fourth round at the Sony Ericsson Open, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament.<\/b>{nl}{nl}Novak made a break in the fourth game of the opening set and then held to love to increase his lead to 4-1. The 23-year-old  Serb earned a break\/set point in the eighth game. He fired a backhand winner down the line to take a second break of serve and sealed the opening set 6-2 in 28 minutes. {nl}{nl}Blake had no answer to Djokovic&#8217;s power. The Australian Open champion continued to put the pressure on his opponent. He raced through the second set with a triple break for another 6-0 on the scoreboard.{nl}{nl}Match statistics: aces (5-2), double faults (1-4), winners (14-8), unforced errors (12-20), total points won (56-29).{nl}{nl}Last game of the match:{nl}{nl}<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"525\" height=\"424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D9SS4VLJlbM?hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>{nl}{nl}<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"525\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cKBrYafQi_E?hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>{nl}{nl}Nole is a phenomenal 20-0 on the season and has the third-longest winning streak to start a season in the last 30 years! John McEnroe is first with 39 wins (1984), Ivan Lendl is second with 25 victories in a row (1986).{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;To be honest, I&#8217;m taking it one match at a time and trying to win against the opponent that I have today and not thinking about what happened or what can happen,&#8221;<\/b> said Djokovic, following his win over Blake.{nl}{nl}Novak will next take on his friend and countryman world no.17 Viktor Troicki who beat American Sam Querrey 7-6, 3-6, 7-5.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Troicki have met nine times, Nole leads 8-1. This will be their third match in 2011!{nl}{nl}Although Novak has dominated their head-to-head series, Troicki does have something on the two-time Australian Open champion. <b>&#8220;The first tournament in my life that I played, I won my first match and then I lost to him. And he gave me a bagel. It was 9 0. I still have a video of that match, and we still joke around a little bit,&#8221;<\/b> laughed Djokovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second-seeded Novak Djokovic defeated American wild card and home favourite James Blake in straight sets 6-2, 6-0 in only 52 minutes in their third career meeting to reach the fourth round at the Sony Ericsson Open, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011940],"class_list":["post-1231","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\/1231","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=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28093,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/28093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}