{"id":145787,"date":"2021-06-28T17:11:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=145787"},"modified":"2021-06-29T18:16:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:16:32","slug":"novak-fights-back-to-beat-draper-in-wimbledon-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-fights-back-to-beat-draper-in-wimbledon-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak fights back to beat Draper in Wimbledon opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Defending champion Novak Djokovic defeated Jack Draper 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in the first round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Wimbledon Championships<\/a> on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>British wild card claimed the opening set, but the top seed won the remaining three, breaking twice in each of them for his 15th consecutive match win on London grass.<\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 lost 16 points total on his serve during the encounter on Centre Court that lasted exactly two hours, but it was a memorable debut for the 19-year-old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;He definitely deserves a round of applause. A youngster, I think, only 19 &#8230; Walking on to the Wimbledon Centre Court for the first time, I think he has done extremely well. He carried himself very maturely on the court, he behaved well, he backed himself,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>&#8220;It feels great seeing everyone and being back on probably the most special, the most sacred tennis court in the world.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (24-4), double faults (1-6), winners (46-26), unforced errors (24-27), total points won (112-74).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak next plays former world no.5 Kevin Anderson (RSA, ATP #102, H2H 9-2).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak eased into the second round of the Gentleman&#8217;s singles, after coming back from a set down to beat wild card Jack Draper 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":145730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[133,101012476,101010469,101012193,101011449,101013198],"class_list":["post-145787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-defending-champion","tag-first-round-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-the-championships-en","tag-wimbledon-2021-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145787","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=145787"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145789,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145787\/revisions\/145789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}