{"id":165114,"date":"2023-05-31T23:43:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=165114"},"modified":"2023-05-31T23:47:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:47:30","slug":"novak-clinches-second-round-win-at-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-clinches-second-round-win-at-roland-garros\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak clinches second round win at Roland Garros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole reached the third round at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland Garros<\/a> for the 18th consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two-time Roland Garros champion Novak Djokovic continued his bid for a record 23rd major crown recording a 7-6 (2), 6-0, 6-3 win over world no.83 Marton Fucsovics on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The third seed produced a strong performance, breaking his rival eight times from 12 opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Novak came through a titanic 88-minute first set, claiming a tie-break 7-2 to gain advantage. From then on, it was mostly plain sailing for the 36-year-old Serbian star.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic extended his perfect ATP H2H series record against the Hungarian to 5-0, and improved to 22-4 on the season after two hours and 44 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (2-1), double faults (3-6), winners (28-28), unforced errors (32-35).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next meet no.29 seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (2-1 H2H record).<\/strong> The Spaniard defeated Luca van Assche 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (6).<\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole 2023 June desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Calendar_June2023.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak booked his spot in the third round in of the 2023 French Open following a 7-6 (2), 6-0, 6-3 win over world no.83 Marton Fucsovics in two hours and 44 minutes on Court Philippe Chatrier. He will next meet no.29 seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (2-1 H2H record).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":165103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011211,101010469,101012260,101013338,101011697],"class_list":["post-165114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris-en","tag-roland-garros-2023-en","tag-second-round-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165114","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=165114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165118,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165114\/revisions\/165118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}