{"id":167612,"date":"2024-07-06T23:10:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T21:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167612"},"modified":"2024-07-08T20:46:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:46:59","slug":"novak-into-wimbledon-week-2-after-victory-over-popyrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-into-wimbledon-week-2-after-victory-over-popyrin\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak into Wimbledon Week 2 after victory over Popyrin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic wrapped up a four-set victory against big-serving Alexei Popyrin on a gloomy Saturday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second-seeded Serbian star was made to dig deep. He rallied from a set down to close out a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) win in three hours and five minutes and reach the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>Novak broke twice from eight opportunities, while his rival converted one break point from the two chances he earned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It was another tough match. I didn\u2019t expect anything less than what we experienced on the court today from Alexei. I knew he was going to come to the match with confidence, a lot of self-belief. He was close to winning when we played in Australia earlier this year. With that serve and powerful forehand, he\u2019s dangerous on any surface. He was the better player in the first set. I played a good second and third, and the fourth was anybody\u2019s game. He was serving very well. It was very difficult to read his serve,&#8221;<\/strong> said Nole. <strong>&#8220;It was just a very challenging match, mentally as well to hang in there. I&#8217;m not allowed to have too big concentration lapses. I think I\u2019ve done well in that regard in one of the best tie-breaks I\u2019ve played this year, that\u2019s for sure.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (19-19), double faults (3-4), winners (53-52), unforced errors (18-31), total points won (135-111).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will take on no.15 seed Holger Rune next (3-2 H2H record). The Dane defeated Quentin Halys in five sets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak wrapped up a four-set victory against Alexei Popyrin on a gloomy Saturday at Wimbledon. The second-seeded Serbian star rallied from a set down to close out a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) win in three hours and five minutes and reach the last 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012193,1039,101013406],"class_list":["post-167612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-third-round","tag-wimbledon-2024-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167612","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=167612"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167621,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167612\/revisions\/167621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}