{"id":1256,"date":"2011-05-05T17:07:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:15:59","slug":"djokovic-crushes-garcia-lopez-levels-lendls-29-0-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/djokovic-crushes-garcia-lopez-levels-lendls-29-0-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic crushes Garcia-Lopez, levels Lendl\u2019s 29-0 record!"},"content":{"rendered":"
{nl}{nl}2009 Madrid semi-finalist, Novak Djokovic, advanced into the quarter-finals of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event with an easy 6-1, 6-2 win over world no.29 Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in only 52 minutes on Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario court.{nl}{nl}Djokovic was very confident in his third round match on Thursday. Garcia-Lopez couldn\u2019t find a solution for Novak\u2019s perfect shots and the Serb cruised through sets. {nl}{nl}The 23-year old won the first 6-1 in just 23 minutes with breaks in the second and fourth games.{nl}{nl}He broke the Spaniard twice in the second set and served out the match 6-2.{nl}{nl}Djokovic made 5 unforced errors, 12 less than his opponent.{nl}{nl}He hit 24 winners to the Spaniard\u2019s 7.{nl}{nl}The Serb converted 4 of his 7 break points, while Garcia-Lopez didn’t have a single chance for break.{nl}{nl}The world no.2 won 100 percent of his first serves (21\/21)! {nl}{nl}“I was winning my service games really comfortably and that’s something that I’m happy about today,”<\/b> said Novak after the match. “It’s a very encouraging fact for my upcoming matches especially on clay where you don’t expect that many free points with the serve. It’s important for me to see that I raised the level of performance today for upcoming quarter-finals.” <\/b>{nl}{nl}Nole will face no.6 seed David Ferrer for a semi-final spot. The Spaniard beat Ukranian Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-3, 7-6.{nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player of all time has improved to a perfect 29-0 this season and levelled former world no.1 Ivan Lendl\u2019s 29-0 start in 1986.{nl}{nl}Djokovic increased his overall winning streak to 31 wins in a row, dating back to last December\u2019s Davis Cup final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2009 Madrid Masters semi-finalist, Novak Djokovic, advanced into the quarter-finals with an easy 6-1, 6-2 win over world no.29 Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in only 52 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012196],"class_list":["post-1256","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\/1256","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=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28063,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/28063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}