{"id":167573,"date":"2024-07-02T18:34:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167573"},"modified":"2024-07-02T20:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T18:27:27","slug":"novak-breezes-through-opening-round-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-breezes-through-opening-round-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak breezes through opening round at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Second seed Novak Djokovic started his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Wimbledon<\/a> campaign on Tuesday, easing past Czech qualifier Vit Kopriva in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seven-time former titlist moved well in first match since knee surgery. The 37-year-old Belgrade native showed no sign of discomfort as he cruised to a one-hour, 58-minute victory under the Centre Court roof.<\/p>\n<p>Novak broke his rival\u2019s serve twice in each set to book his place in the second round. He won 90 per cent (35\/39) of points behind his first serve.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Coming into Wimbledon for me this year was very different because of the knee. I am just really glad with how I played and how I felt on the court. I didn&#8217;t know how everything was going to unfold on the court. I&#8217;m extremely glad with the way I felt and the way I played today. Thank you all for coming out and supporting,&#8221;<\/em> Djokovic said.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (10-4), double faults (2-5), winners (32-25), unforced errors (16-30), total points won (98-56).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will play against home wild card Jacob Fearnley, the world number 277.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak started his 2024 Wimbledon campaign on Tuesday, easing past Czech qualifier Vit Kopriva in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. He next faces home wild card Jacob Fearnley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[310,101010469,101011445,101013406],"class_list":["post-167573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-first-round","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-the-championships","tag-wimbledon-2024-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167573","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=167573"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167588,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167573\/revisions\/167588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}