{"id":165799,"date":"2023-08-29T07:10:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T05:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=165799"},"modified":"2023-08-29T07:12:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T05:12:03","slug":"uso-novak-makes-fast-start-breezes-into-the-second-round-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/uso-novak-makes-fast-start-breezes-into-the-second-round-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"USO: Novak makes fast start, breezes into the second round in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three-time champion Novak Djokovic made a fast start at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Open<\/a> on Monday, where he moved past Frenchman Alexandre Muller 6-0, 6-2, 6-3 to reach the second round.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match on Arthur Ashe Stadium lasted one hour and 34 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Novak broke seven times from 12 opportunities and suffered one break of serve, having won 84% of points on his first serve. He was 20\/23 on net approaches (87%).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe first set I started tremendously well off the box,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic in his on-court interview. <strong>\u201cWe started quite late. There was a ceremony between matches and I knew that we might have a late start, but nevertheless I was excited to come out on the court. It\u2019s been a couple of years, and to come out here in front of you guys is always an honour and a pleasure here on Arthur Ashe.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Nole did not participate in the US Open because of vaccination status.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (6-4), double faults (5-4), winners (32-11), unforced errors (23-17), total points won (77-50).<\/p>\n<p>Novak will next play against world no.76 Bernabe Zapata Miralles of Spain. It will be their first career meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic is guaranteed his return to World no.1 in the ATP Rankings after the US Open, on Monday, September 11.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time champion made a fast start at the US Open, when he moved past Frenchman Alexandre Muller with a commanding performance 6-0, 6-2, 6-3 to reach the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":165794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012476,101013357,101010469,101012298,101013356,101012292],"class_list":["post-165799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-first-round-en","tag-flushing-meadows","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-new-york-en","tag-us-open-2023-en","tag-usa-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165799","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=165799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165802,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165799\/revisions\/165802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}