{"id":144740,"date":"2021-06-05T16:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=144740"},"modified":"2021-06-05T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T14:50:45","slug":"novak-topples-berankis-to-reach-second-week-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-topples-berankis-to-reach-second-week-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak topples Berankis to reach second week in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nole faced no trouble during the match, dropping just six games en-route to the R4.<\/p>\n

World no.1 Novak Djokovic recorded a 6-1, 6-4, 6-1 victory on Saturday afternoon to book a place in the fourth round at Roland Garros<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2016 French Open titlist defeated Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania on Court Philippe-Chatrier in one hour and 32 minutes to claim his 23rd win on the season.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the one-sided triumph, Novak dominated from the beginning. He broke his opponent’s serve six times and did not face a single break point.<\/p>\n

The Belgrade native won 88% of first-serve points (37\/42) and was 11\/15 on net approaches.<\/p>\n

Match statistics: aces (5-1), double faults (3-3), winners (30-20), unforced errors (18-36), total points won (87-55).<\/p>\n

Novak is into the last 16 for the 12th year in a row. He plays Lorenzo Musetti (ATP #76) on Monday for a spot in the quarter-finals in their first career encounter.
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The 19-year-old Italian overcame compatriot Marco Cecchinato in his first ever five-set win (3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3).<\/p>\n

Photo: Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World no.1 recorded a 6-1, 6-4, 6-1 victory over Ricardas Berankis on Saturday afternoon to book a place in the fourth round at Roland Garros. He will meet Lorenzo Musetti for a spot in the last eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":144733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011211,101010469,101012260,101012268,1039],"class_list":["post-144740","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-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144740","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=144740"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144766,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144740\/revisions\/144766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}