{"id":146878,"date":"2021-07-24T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T08:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=146878"},"modified":"2021-07-26T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T10:30:18","slug":"olympics-novak-wins-tokyo-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/olympics-novak-wins-tokyo-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics: Novak wins Tokyo opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic advanced to the second round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/tokyo-2020\/en\/sports\/tennis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a> with a routine 6-2, 6-2 victory against Bolivian Hugo Dellien on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top seed broke four times from 10 opportunities and did not face a single break point in a 63-minute triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (7-1), double faults (0-0), winners (13-6), unforced errors (6-15), total points won (61-31).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next play Jan-Lennard Struff (ATP #46) who outlasted Brazilian Thiago Monteiro 6-3, 6-4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Serbian star owns a perfect 5-0 H2H record against the big-hitting German.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top seed advanced to the second round of the Tokyo Olympics with a 6-2, 6-2 victory against Bolivian Hugo Dellien. He will next play German Jan-Lennard Struff (ATP #46, H2H 5-0) on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":146875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012476,101012210,101010574,101012361,101013206],"class_list":["post-146878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-first-round-en","tag-japan-en","tag-olympic-games-en","tag-tokyo-en","tag-tokyo-olympics-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146878","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=146878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146952,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146878\/revisions\/146952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}