{"id":165422,"date":"2023-07-05T21:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T19:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=165422"},"modified":"2023-07-06T16:37:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:37:35","slug":"novak-downs-thompson-to-earn-350th-grand-slam-win-maintains-flawless-wimbledon-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-downs-thompson-to-earn-350th-grand-slam-win-maintains-flawless-wimbledon-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak downs Thompson for 350th GS win, maintains flawless Wimbledon start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic continued his perfect start at SW19 following a composed win over Jordan Thompson on Centre Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The second seed recorded a 6-3, 7-6, 7-5 victory to book his spot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> third round in two hours and 27 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thompson did his best to challenge the 23-time Grand Slam titlist with massive serves, but he was unable to put up stronger resistance and fight as Djokovic was flawless on his own service games.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Serbian star converted two of his five break point opportunities and did not face a single break point during his first career meeting with the Australian.<\/p>\n<p>The triumph is Nole&#8217;s 30th consecutive Wimbledon victory, 350th Grand Slam win, and he is through to the third round of the most prestigious tennis event for the 17th time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I don&#8217;t really know if I wanted to meet him this early in the tournament,&#8221;<\/strong> said Djokovic of his big-serving opponent. <strong>&#8220;Congratulations to him for the performance, he was a bit unlucky but he played a great match. I try to enjoy every moment I spend on Centre Court. It&#8217;s a huge privilege, especially at this age when I&#8217;m still trying to push forward with the young guns. I don&#8217;t know how long that&#8217;s going to go on but so far, so good.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (8-21), double faults (0-2), winners (40-43), unforced errors (13-20), total points won (109-89).<\/p>\n<p><strong>His next rival will be Stan Wawrinka (SUI, ATP #88, H2H 20-6) who defeated 29th seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG) in four sets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak outclassed battling Jordan Thompson with a 6-3, 7-6, 7-5 victory to book his spot in the Wimbledon third round. His next rival will be Stan Wawrinka (SUI, ATP #88).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":165417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012193,113,101011445,101013347],"class_list":["post-165422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-second-round","tag-the-championships","tag-wimbledon-2023-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165422","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=165422"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165435,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165422\/revisions\/165435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}