{"id":145922,"date":"2021-06-30T16:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=145922"},"modified":"2021-06-30T21:01:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:01:05","slug":"novak-cruises-past-anderson-into-third-round-of-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-cruises-past-anderson-into-third-round-of-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak cruises past Anderson into third round of Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic made just six unforced errors on his way to claiming a 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 win over Kevin Anderson in the second round of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The five-time champion defeated the big-serving South African in straightforward fashion on Centre Court. The match lasted one hour and 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Novak was dominant from start to finish. He broke four times from five opportunities and didn\u2019t face a break point en-route to his 74th victory at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<p>It was the pair\u2019s 12th meeting. Djokovic is now 10-2 against the former world no.5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Kevin is a terrific player, very dangerous on grass courts, fast courts,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>&#8220;A straight-set victory today but still only one break in each set was enough. I held my serve really comfortably. Once we get into the rally, I have a better chance. That was one of the tactical goals &#8211; try to make the least unforced errors as possible. I knew Kevin was going to serve big and I wasn&#8217;t going to have too many chances to break his serve. I&#8217;ve done much better that I thought I would do. I believed in myself but it was an almost flawless performance today.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (9-11), double faults (1-4), winners (25-24), unforced errors (5-25), total points won (88-57).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nole will next play against American qualifier Denis Kudla (#114, 2-0 H2H).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole 2021 July desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Calendar_July2021.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole moved another step closer to his 20th Grand Slam with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Kevin Anderson. The top seed will next play against American qualifier Denis Kudla (#114, 2-0 H2H).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":145910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101011697,101011449,101013198],"class_list":["post-145922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-second-round-en","tag-the-championships-en","tag-wimbledon-2021-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145922","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=145922"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145990,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145922\/revisions\/145990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}