{"id":124681,"date":"2019-08-29T03:45:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T01:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=124681"},"modified":"2019-08-30T07:35:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T05:35:37","slug":"novak-overcomes-injury-scare-to-beat-londero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-overcomes-injury-scare-to-beat-londero\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak overcomes injury scare to beat Londero, moves into R3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Defending champion Novak Djokovic is through to the third round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Open<\/a> after beating world no.56 Juan Ignacio Londero in straight sets, 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-1, despite carrying a shoulder injury throughout the match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top seed handled the big hitting Argentine to progress in two hours and 15 minutes under the Arthur Ashe Stadium roof.<\/p>\n<p>Novak fell behind a break in the opening set but broke right back and once again in the 10th game. The Belgrade native was bothered by his left shoulder and received treatment during the 4-3 changeover and again after the first set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy to play with the pain, but I had to find a way. It was definitely affecting my serve and backhand, but I don&#8217;t want to talk about it too much,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>&#8220;It\u2019s not the first time I face this kind of challenge.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Londero made a double-break for 3-0 lead in the second set, but Nole fought back and went on to take the tie-break 7-3, earning two sets to love lead.<\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 dominated the remainder of the match, hitting only six unforced errors in the third set, compared to 15 in the first and 14 in the second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I want to congratulate Londero for showing a great fighting spirit and playing some great tennis tonight. <\/strong><strong>It&#8217;s a straight-sets win but it was definitely a very difficult match to play. A lot of rallies, especially in the first couple of sets.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (7-6), double faults (8-5), winners (35-24), unforced errors (35-43), total points won (102-82).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NKDT3f9D0dw\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up for Novak is ATP #111 Denis Kudla (H2H 1-0).<\/strong> The American eliminated Dusan Lajovic.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic sealed his 71st win at the season&#8217;s final Grand Slam, moving into fifth place in the Open Era and tying five-time champion Pete Sampras.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Serbian star is going for his fourth US Open title and third Major crown of the season.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak defeated the big hitting Argentine 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-1 to progress in two hours and 15 minutes under the Arthur Ashe Stadium roof.  Next up for the top seed is Denis Kudla  (USA, ATP #111).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":124679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011546,101010469,101011866,101011697,101012302],"class_list":["post-124681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-defending-champion-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-new-york","tag-second-round-en","tag-us-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124681","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=124681"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124774,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124681\/revisions\/124774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}