{"id":147052,"date":"2021-07-26T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T10:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=147052"},"modified":"2021-07-26T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T10:24:58","slug":"nole-cruises-past-struff-into-the-last-16-of-the-tokyo-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-cruises-past-struff-into-the-last-16-of-the-tokyo-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole cruises past Struff into the last 16 of the Tokyo Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak Djokovic produced convincing victory on Monday to reach the last 16 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/tokyo-2020\/en\/sports\/tennis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tokyo 2020 Olympics<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian tennis star dispatched 48th-ranked Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4, 6-3 in one hour and 14 minutes at Ariake Tennis Park.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leading 5-4 on the German&#8217;s serve Novak applied pressure and broke to love to claim the first set 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Another break came in the second game of the second set. Struff fought back immediately, but Novak converted a break point chance in the fourth game for 3-1 lead, and kept the advantage until the end of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (14-3), double faults (1-2), winners (10-11), unforced errors (4-3), total points won (63-45).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next play against 16th seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (H2H 1-0) on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard edged John Millman of Australia 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is attempting to become the first man to win all four Grand Slam titles and Olympic gold in the same calendar year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak eased into the third round of the Tokyo Olympics tennis tournament following a 6-4, 6-3 win over Germany&#8217;s Jan-Lennard Struff. He will next play against 16th seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":147017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012210,101010574,101011697,101012361],"class_list":["post-147052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-japan-en","tag-olympic-games-en","tag-second-round-en","tag-tokyo-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147052","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=147052"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147057,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147052\/revisions\/147057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}