{"id":1327,"date":"2011-08-18T02:07:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T01:07:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T14:45:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:45:52","slug":"novak-sails-into-third-round-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-sails-into-third-round-in-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak sails into third round in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/864a.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photo: AP<\/font>{nl}{nl}Nole needed 76 minutes to advance into the Western &#038; Southern Open third round on Wednesday evening.{nl}{nl}<b>The world\u2019s no.1-ranked player beat American teenager world no.78 Ryan Harrison 6-2, 6-3  to improve to 54-1 this year (30-0 on hard), a run that has included nine titles.<\/b>{nl}{nl}Djokovic sealed an unusual first set in 44 minutes. Harrison failed to win a single service game &#8211; the two he won were both breaks. Nole broke his opponent\u2019s serve four times.{nl}{nl}The 24-year-old Belgrade native capitalised on his break point in the second game of the second set and held for 3-0 lead. Both players held their serves till the end of the match, Novak closed it 6-3 to continue his 2011 run.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;It was a slow start, not a good start. I was serving not so great today. I think everything else was quite good,&#8221;<\/b> said Novak. <b>&#8220;From the baseline I wasn&#8217;t making a lot of unforced errors. I was returning a lot of balls in and played quite good really for the opening match. It&#8217;s totally different conditions from Montreal, so you got to get used to that&#8230; it&#8217;s much faster here. Ball flies through the air faster, so it&#8217;s really hard to control.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}Nole is making his seventh appearance at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati (12-6 record). He fell early in 2005, 2006 and 2007, reached back-to-back finals in 2008 and 2009 (l. to Murray and Federer) and was stopped in quarter-finals last year (l. to Roddick).{nl}{nl}<b>The Serbian, who won Montreal Masters on Sunday, will take on world no.29 Radek Stepanek on Thursday about 14.30 local time (20.30 CET). <\/b>{nl}{nl}The Czech beat Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan in straight sets. Nole leads their H2H 5-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s no.1-ranked player beat American teenager world no.78 Ryan Harrison 6-2, 6-3  to improve to 54-1 this year, a run that has included nine titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011861],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-cincinnati-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","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=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27989,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/27989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}