{"id":1255,"date":"2011-05-04T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:16:11","slug":"nole-continues-perfect-run-advances-to-third-round-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-continues-perfect-run-advances-to-third-round-in-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole continues perfect run, advances to third round in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/858g.jpg> {nl}{nl}Second seed of Mutua Madrid Open Novak Djokovic defeated world no.35 South Africa&#8217;s Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-4 at Manolo Santana Stadium today in the second round of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event.{nl}{nl}Novak wrapped up the victory in 1hour and 40 minutes to improve to a 28-0 this season and is now only one match short of equalling Ivan Lendl\u2019s 29-0 start in 1986.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;Well it&#8217;s a great honour of course it\u2019s very flattering to be part of that elite but it\u2019s not my priority,&#8221; <\/b> said Djokovic. <b>&#8220;I\u2019m really taking one match at a time.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}Nole  broke Anderson\u2019s serve in the eighth game of the opening set and raced through a service hold to seal the set 6-3 in 48 minutes.{nl}{nl}Anderson earned two break points in the second game of the second set, but the 23-year-old Belgrade native won four points in a row to level at 1-all. Djokovic made a crucial break in the seventh game and kept the advantage till the end to close the set and match 6-4.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;Well I&#8217;m happy with today\u2019s performance first, its obviously the first match in Madrid after two years, and conditions here are really fast and its hard to control the ball,&#8221; <\/b> said Novak after the match.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;If you&#8217;re playing a good server like Anderson  it\u2019s a big effort to make a break and I tried very hard, it was a lot of work but I did twice every set which was enough.&#8221;{nl}<\/b>{nl}Match statistics: aces (2-7), double faults (2-0), winners (22-14), unforced errors (17-27), total points won (66-53).{nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player will face world no.29  Guillermo Garcia-Lopez on Thursday for a place in the quarter-finals.{nl}{nl}The Spaniard upset no.14 seed Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round, and was better than Dutch qualifier Thiemo de Bakker in the second. {nl}{nl}Nole leads their H2H 4-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second seed of Mutua Madrid Open Novak Djokovic defeated world no.35 South Africa&#8217;s Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-4 at Manolo Santana Stadium today in the second round of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012196],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-madrid-2011-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","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=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28064,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/28064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}