{"id":1340,"date":"2011-09-02T04:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:14:01","slug":"supreme-nole-storms-to-us-open-3rd-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/supreme-nole-storms-to-us-open-3rd-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Nole storms to US Open 3rd round!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/865e.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photo: Getty Images<\/font>{nl}{nl}Another stunning performance by Nole! {nl}{nl}<b>The world no.1 clinched his 59th victory this year, ousting Argentine Carlos Berlocq 6-0, 6-0, 6-2 in 90 minutes on Arthur Ashe Stadium in a second-round encounter on Thursday evening.<\/b>{nl}{nl}Novak was in a great mood, showing no mercy for his opponent. Amazing, truly sensational tennis from the top seed.{nl}{nl}The 2011 Australian Open and Wimbledon champion was off to a blistering start. He completely dominated the first two sets winning 12 games in a row making triple break in each.{nl}{nl}The 24-year-old continued in the same rhythm in the third set. He was soon 2-0 up. We saw attractive points from both players.  Berlocq managed to take two games till the end of the match, both on Nole&#8217;s serve, which brought standing ovations from the crowd. The Belgrade native won three games in a row for 6-2 and a place in the next round.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;The first two sets were ideal,&#8221;<\/b> said Novak. <b>&#8220;I could not play better. I was getting a lot of balls back, I was ending the points when I needed to. I was making a lot of winners. My serve was okay, and my return was great. I felt fantastic out on the court. There&#8217;s not much I can say when everything just seems fun and enjoyable out there.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cI played good tennis, tried to win. On the other hand, we tried to engage the crowd. It was nice. A lot of entertainment. Long, attractive points, the through-the-leg shot and things like that. It was a really, really good third set.\u201d<\/b>{nl}{nl}<u>Match statistics<\/u>: aces (5-2), double faults (0-6), winners (31-11), unforced errors (15-26).{nl}{nl}Djokovic will face Nikolay Davydenko for a place in the last 16.{nl}{nl}The world no.39 beat Italian Potito Starace 6-2, 6-4, 7-5.{nl}{nl}Nole holds a 4-2 advantage over the Russian in head-to-heads. The Serbian star won their last match in Montreal 7-5, 6-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 Novak Djokovic clinched his 59th victory in 2011, ousting Argentine Carlos Berlocq 6-0, 6-0, 6-2 in 90 minutes on Arthur Ashe Stadium in a second-round encounter on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010286],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-us-open-2011-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","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=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27085,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/27085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}