{"id":165443,"date":"2023-07-08T00:22:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T22:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=165443"},"modified":"2023-07-08T00:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T22:25:47","slug":"novak-through-to-last-16-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-through-to-last-16-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak through to last 16 at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak Djokovic continued his perfect record at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> on Friday when he moved past Stan Wawrinka 6-3, 6-1, 7-6 (5) to reach the last 16 in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second seed dictated play in the match. He broke his opponent&#8217;s serve once in the first set and three times in the second, and went on to win the third set tie-break.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I have to say that it&#8217;s amazing what Stan is doing. Still his age, after several surgeries. We are two old guys fighting with the young guns, I think it&#8217;s important to acknowledge that,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said in his on-court interview. <strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing. It&#8217;s inspiring. Like Andy Murray, he was forced to drop in the rankings in the last couple of years and is trying to build his ranking. We&#8217;ve had some amazing battles on the biggest courts in the sport. I respect Stan a lot as a player. He&#8217;s an extremely nice guy. So I wish him all the best for the for the rest of the season.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;He was two points away from extending this match to another day. Coming into the court, we knew that it was going to be really tight to finish the match today,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak added. <strong>&#8220;One of us had to win in straight sets and it looked very, very good for me the first two sets. Then he raised his level, I dropped mine a little bit. And yeah, the crowd got involved. It was a good atmosphere. And hopefully you guys enjoyed it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (11-6), double faults (1-0), winners (38-12), unforced errors (26-19), total points won (96-70).<\/p>\n<p><strong>With his two-hour, six-minute win, Novak set a fourth-round clash against 17th seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland (H2H record 5-0), who defeated 14th seed Lorenzo Musetti 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-4 earlier in the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak continued his perfect record at Wimbledon on Friday when he moved past Stan Wawrinka 6-3, 6-1, 7-6 (5) to reach the last 16 in London. The seven-time champion will next meet 17th seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland (H2H record 5-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":165440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012193,101011672,101011449,1039,101013347],"class_list":["post-165443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-stan-wawrinka-en","tag-the-championships-en","tag-third-round","tag-wimbledon-2023-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165443","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=165443"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165449,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165443\/revisions\/165449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}