{"id":142897,"date":"2021-04-21T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T16:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=142897"},"modified":"2021-04-21T23:53:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:53:36","slug":"novak-strolls-into-serbia-open-quarters-with-dominant-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-strolls-into-serbia-open-quarters-with-dominant-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak strolls into Serbia Open quarters with dominant display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic began his <a href=\"https:\/\/serbiaopen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serbia Open 2021<\/a> campaign with a routine 6-1, 6-3 win against Kwon Soonwoo to reach the quarter-finals in his hometown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 recorded a dominant victory in 68 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Nole was sharp from the first game of the match. He had broken his rival twice in each set, before surrendering a game on his own serve while serving for the match. However, the two-time champion broke in the very next game to seal his victory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I thought I played very well from the very beginning, except that service game that I lost at 5-2 in the second set. It was a pretty flawless performance,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;I moved well, I was mixing up the pace quite well, making him play. I served well in the important moments, and overall I just felt great.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (2-3), double faults (2-3), total points won (60-35).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next face fellow Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic on Friday. It will be their first career meeting.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Fonet<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed began his Serbia Open 2021 campaign with a routine 6-1, 6-3 win against Kwon Soonwoo to reach the last eight in his hometown. He will next face fellow Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":142941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012178,101012319,101011697,101013184],"class_list":["post-142897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-belgrade-en","tag-second-round-en","tag-serbia-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142897","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=142897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142943,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142897\/revisions\/142943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}