{"id":144714,"date":"2021-06-03T18:02:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=144714"},"modified":"2021-06-03T22:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T20:22:35","slug":"novak-powers-into-roland-garros-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-powers-into-roland-garros-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak powers into Roland Garros third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic completed his 22nd match win of the year (22-3 record) on Thursday for a place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland Garros<\/a> third round for the 16th time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The world no.1 raced past Uruguay\u2019s Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in two hours and six minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak suffered an early break, but raised his level immediately to deliver five breaks, two in the first and second sets, and one in the third.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Serbian star closed out his 350th Grand Slam match with an ace (305\/45).<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, the 2016 French Open champion, won 75 per cent of his first-service points (48\/64) and 70 per cent of his net points (14\/20).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m pleased with the performance today, particularly against a very good player, a specialist on clay, someone I have never faced before. I&#8217;m playing well, feeling great. I&#8217;m ready to go deep in this tournament,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;Hopefully that&#8217;s going to be the case. But I&#8217;ll take it match by match, and so far the two matches that I have played have been played in a high quality.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (10-5), double faults (3-3), winners (32-31), unforced errors (22-26), total points won (98-70).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a spot in the last 16, Novak will face Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania (ATP #93, H2H 3-0).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: EPA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top seed dismissed Uruguay\u2019s Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 in two hours and six minutes. For a place in the last 16, Novak will face Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania (ATP #93, H2H 3-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":144711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011211,101010469,101012260,101013190,101011697],"class_list":["post-144714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris-en","tag-roland-garros-2021-en","tag-second-round-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144714","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=144714"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144729,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144714\/revisions\/144729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}