{"id":167722,"date":"2024-07-27T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T13:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167722"},"modified":"2024-07-28T19:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T17:20:37","slug":"novak-topples-ebden-in-the-paris-olympics-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-topples-ebden-in-the-paris-olympics-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak topples Ebden in the Paris Olympics R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole spent only 53 minutes on the court in the first round in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic kicked off his fifth <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/paris-2024\/results\/tennis\/men-s-singles\/r64-000100--\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olympic Games<\/a> with a rock-solid 6-0, 6-1 triumph over Matthew Ebden on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star dominated the doubles specialist and advanced in just 53 minutes, passing the first obstacle in Paris and moving into the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Novak capitalised on his six break points from nine opportunities. He created a match point with a volley winner and converted it with a backhand down the line winner, sealing the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-1), double faults (0-4), winners (24-7), unforced errors (10-15), total points won (52-21).<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the second round of the Olympic tournament, Novak awaits Rafael Nadal (Spain), who won 2-1 against Marton Fucsovics (Hungary).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will be the 60th clash between Nole and Rafa. The Serbian tennis player leads 30-29.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak kicked off his fifth Olympic Games with a rock-solid 6-0, 6-1 triumph over Matthew Ebden on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Saturday. The 24-time Major champion goes on to face Rafael Nadal (ESP) in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012476,101012251,101010574,101012260],"class_list":["post-167722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-first-round-en","tag-france-en","tag-olympic-games-en","tag-paris-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167722","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=167722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167729,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167722\/revisions\/167729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}