{"id":163361,"date":"2023-03-01T17:52:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=163361"},"modified":"2023-03-01T20:34:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T19:34:06","slug":"novak-downs-griekspoor-to-progress-into-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/uncategorized-en\/novak-downs-griekspoor-to-progress-into-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai: Novak downs Griekspoor to progress into quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole remains unbeaten in 2023 (W\/L record 14-0).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed and five-time former champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the last eight at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dubaidutyfreetennischampionships.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships<\/a> on Wednesday when he defeated world no.39 Tallon Griekspoor in straight sets &#8211; 6-2, 6-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted one hour and 22 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Novak broke the Dutchman four times before surrendering the only break serving for the victory. He won 91 per cent (20\/22) of points behind his powerful first serve and hit 29 winners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s been a great evening for me tonight,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>\u201cYesterday I really had to work hard to get a win. Tonight, right from the blocks, I think I was sharp. I played definitely better-quality tennis than I did last night. Maybe the last three or four games weren\u2019t the best to close the match, but I managed to find a good serve in the end. I\u2019m very pleased with the performance and with the way I felt on the court, and hopefully things can go in the right direction for tomorrow.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (8-12), double faults (3-1), total points won (73-50).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak&#8217;s quarter-final opponent at the ATP 500 outdoor hard-court event will be fifth seed Hubert Hurkacz. He holds a perfect 4-0 ATP career H2H record against the Pole.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed and five-time champion advanced to the last eight at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Wednesday when he defeated world no.39 Tallon Griekspoor in straight sets &#8211; 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":163327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163361","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=163361"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163412,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163361\/revisions\/163412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}