{"id":136283,"date":"2020-09-16T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=136283"},"modified":"2020-09-16T18:55:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:55:17","slug":"novak-victorious-in-rome-powers-into-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-victorious-in-rome-powers-into-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak victorious in Rome, powers into last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic began his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia<\/a> campaign in Rome on Wednesday, beating Italian wildcard Salvatore Caruso in straights sets, 6-3, 6-2, in his first clay-court match of the season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The four-time titlist converted three of his eight break point chances, having denied his rival a single break point opportunity during the one hour, 24-minute clash.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-3), double faults (1-2), winners (12-13), unforced errors (18-29), total points won (65-45).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a spot in the ATP Masters 1000 event quarter-finals, Novak will play his compatriot and Davis Cup teammate Filip Krajinovic (ATP #29, 0-1 H2H), who defeated Italian qualifier Marco Cecchinato in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Having spent his 286th week at the summit of men\u2019s professional tennis, the 33-year-old now ties Pete Sampras and has only Roger Federer (310) in his sights.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 began his Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia campaign on Wednesday, beating Italian wildcard Salvatore Caruso 6-3, 6-2, in his first clay-court match of the season. Novak goes on to face Filip Krajinovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":136278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012444,101011267,101012240,101011697],"class_list":["post-136283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rome-en","tag-second-round-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136283","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=136283"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136360,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136283\/revisions\/136360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}