{"id":130342,"date":"2020-01-24T08:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T07:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=130342"},"modified":"2020-01-25T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T13:26:23","slug":"ao-2020-novak-powers-into-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/ao-2020-novak-powers-into-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"AO 2020: Novak powers into last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak continued his quest for an eighth Melbourne crown, following a straight sets win on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic cruised to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Australian Open<\/a> last 16, comfortably defeating world no.71 Yoshihito Nishioka 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 at Rod Laver Arena.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 16-time Grand Slam champion put on another serving clinic, winning 93 per cent of his first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic broke the Japanese once in the first set and twice in the second and third, to advance in 85 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201dDefinitely one of the best serving matches I\u2019ve had lately and inspired by my coach, Goran Ivanisevic,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>\u201cThere are a lot of technical details you can talk about, but sometimes less is more. It\u2019s all about the rhythm and balance. So far, it\u2019s been working really well.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (17-1), double faults (2-4), winners (40-15), unforced errors (23-22), total points won (87-49).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak goes on to face 14th seed Diego Schwartzman who beat no.24 seed Dusan Lajovic in straight sets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star owns a 3-0 H2H record against the Argentine.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak continued his quest for an eighth Melbourne crown, following a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win over Yoshihito Nishioka. He goes on to face 14th seed Diego Schwartzman on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":130340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012354,101013108,101010469,101012415,1039],"class_list":["post-130342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australia-en","tag-australian-open-2020-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-melbourne-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130342","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=130342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130447,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130342\/revisions\/130447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}