{"id":154517,"date":"2022-05-10T17:54:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=154517"},"modified":"2022-05-11T21:39:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T19:39:57","slug":"rome-masters-novak-powers-past-karatsev-into-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rome-masters-novak-powers-past-karatsev-into-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome Masters: Novak powers past Karatsev into third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 Novak Djokovic continued his fine form with a comfortable win over Aslan Karatsev at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The top seed and five-time former titlist recorded a 6-3, 6-2 victory in one hour and 30 minutes to advance into the third round in Rome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic\u2019s return game was at its best as he broke his rival four times, twice in each set. Karatsev converted one of his two break point chances.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (1-4), double faults (2-4), winners (15-18), unforced errors (10-36), total points won (67-47).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak&#8217;s opponent in the third round will be Stan Wawrinka (SUI, PR) on Thursday. Wawrinka beat Laslo Djere (SRB) in three sets 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 .<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star is chasing 1000th career win this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time champion opened his 2022 Italian Open campaign with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Aslan Karatsev. He goes on to face Stan Wawrinka (SUI) on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":154515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101013237,101011267,101012240,113],"class_list":["post-154517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-2022-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rome-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154517","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=154517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154597,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154517\/revisions\/154597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}