{"id":144637,"date":"2021-06-01T23:29:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=144637"},"modified":"2021-06-02T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T05:07:10","slug":"novak-opens-roland-garros-campaign-with-straight-sets-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-opens-roland-garros-campaign-with-straight-sets-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak opens Roland Garros campaign with straight sets win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent performance from Novak in his first round match at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Roland Garros<\/a> in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 and 2016 champion Novak Djokovic needed one hour and 58 minutes to advance to the second round of the French Open on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian star defeated Tennys Sundgren in straight sets 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak broke the American five times from 11 opportunities, and saved all six break points he faced.<\/p>\n<p>The top seed dominated the fourth career meeting between the two, winning 86% of points on first serve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt was strange, honestly, but I&#8217;m also honoured to be the first men&#8217;s night session match in the history of this tournament, of this court,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said, after playing without fans on Chatrier due to the 9 p.m. curfew in Paris. <strong>\u201cI had great support in Belgrade last week, and I was kind of filled with a good vibe, good energy from those matches that I played in front of a crowd. So I didn&#8217;t mind playing in front of an empty stadium tonight. Overall from the later stages of the Rome tournament until now, I&#8217;m just finding my groove on the court and striking the ball well. Very pleased with the way I am feeling and playing on the court.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-5), double faults (2-1), winners (33-25), unforced errors (21-27), total points won (99-68).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next play Argentine Pablo Cuevas (ATP #92). It will be their first career encounter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole 2021 June desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Calendar_June2021.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18-time Grand Slam champion completed a 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 win against Tennys Sandgren on Tuesday to advance into the second round in Paris. Novak will next play Pablo Cuevas (ARG, ATP #92).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":144630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012476,101011211,101010469,101012260,101012268],"class_list":["post-144637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-first-round-en","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris-en","tag-roland-garros-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144637","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=144637"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144692,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144637\/revisions\/144692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}