{"id":167737,"date":"2024-07-29T16:13:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T14:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167737"},"modified":"2024-07-29T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:20:20","slug":"nole-comes-through-against-nadal-to-reach-third-round-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-comes-through-against-nadal-to-reach-third-round-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole comes through against Nadal to reach third round in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic defeated great rival Rafael Nadal 6-1, 6-4 in their 60th career meeting, on Court Philippe-Chatrier, on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 24-time Grand Slam champion emerged victorious against the Spaniard, a 22-time major winner, in one hour and 42 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Novak made a strong start and raced to a 6-0, 4-0 lead. Rafa fought back in the second set, leveling at 4-all, but the Serbian star took the following two games to seal the triumph and advance into the last 16 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/paris-2024\/results\/tennis\/men-s-singles\/r32-000100--\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (5-1), double faults (1-2), winners (23-12), unforced errors (17-20), total points won (63-43).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will play against Dominik Koepfer (GER, ATP no.70) in the third round on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Novak Djokovic defeated great rival Rafael Nadal 6-1, 6-4 in their 60th career meeting. He will next play against Dominik Koepfer (GER, ATP no.70) in the third round on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012251,101010574,101012260,101013410,101010864,101011697],"class_list":["post-167737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-france-en","tag-olympic-games-en","tag-paris-en","tag-paris-olympics-en","tag-rafael-nadal-en","tag-second-round-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167737","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=167737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167743,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167737\/revisions\/167743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}