{"id":124527,"date":"2019-08-26T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=124527"},"modified":"2019-08-30T07:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T05:35:19","slug":"defending-champion-novak-into-second-round-of-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/defending-champion-novak-into-second-round-of-the-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion Novak into second round of the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak started his title defence in a strong fashion by beating Roberto Caraballes Baena in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic advanced into the second round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Open<\/a>, following a 6-4, 6-1, 6-4 win over Roberto Caraballes Baena of Spain on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak converted four of his 11 break points, having denied his rival a single break point opportunity during the one hour, 52-minute clash on Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 won 84% of his first-service points, and 23 of 29 net approaches. He now owns a 70-10 record at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s great to be back. I\u2019m quite pleased with my performance and looking forward to the next round,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>\u201cI know what I need to do to keep going.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-5), double faults (3-5), winners (25-25), unforced errors (30-27), total points won (94-70).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/egldTebuyKM\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will play against Juan Ignacio Londero (ATP #56) on Wednesday. <\/strong>The Argentine eliminated Sam Querrey (USA) in R1.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic arrived in Flushing Meadows with his sights set on a 17th Grand Slam crown, which, if achieved, would bring him to within one title of second-placed Rafael Nadal (18) and three shy of all-time leader Roger Federer (20).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak started his title defence in a strong fashion by beating Roberto Caraballes Baena in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4. He next faces Juan Ignacio Londero (ARG, ATP #56).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":124562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011546,101012476,101010469,101011866,101012302],"class_list":["post-124527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-defending-champion-en","tag-first-round-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-new-york","tag-us-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124527","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=124527"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124566,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124527\/revisions\/124566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}