{"id":167195,"date":"2024-05-10T20:51:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T18:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167195"},"modified":"2024-05-10T21:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:02:45","slug":"novak-seals-third-round-spot-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-seals-third-round-spot-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak seals third round spot in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole made a winning start to his Rome campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic continued his clay-court season on Friday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a>, when he defeated Corentin Moutet 6-3, 6-1 to reach the third round in Rome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star dictated play when it mattered most in his second ATP H2H meeting with the French lucky loser, to triumph after 85 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Match play is different to practise sets,&#8221;<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>&#8220;I played a lefty and I have not practised with a lefty in a while, so it took me a little time to adjust to the different rotations of the ball. Corentin is a very talented player. He has great hands and is very unpredictable. You don&#8217;t know what comes up next, so I had to stay focused, which I did and it is a good opening match.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: winners (21-13), unforced errors (13-20), total points won (61-40).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak, who has won six titles in Rome, will play no.29 seed Alejandro Tabilo (29) in the third round.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chilean eliminated Yannick Hanfmann (GER) in straight sets 6-3, 7-6.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 continued his clay-court season at the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia on Friday, when he defeated Corentin Moutet 6-3, 6-1 to reach the third round in Rome. He plays Alejandro Tabilo (CHI, 29) next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101013393,101013055,101011267,101012240,101011697],"class_list":["post-167195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-2024-en","tag-italian-open","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rome-en","tag-second-round-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167195","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=167195"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167205,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167195\/revisions\/167205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}