{"id":167964,"date":"2024-08-27T06:11:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T04:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167964"},"modified":"2024-08-27T22:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:09:52","slug":"novak-eases-through-in-new-york-faces-djere-in-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-eases-through-in-new-york-faces-djere-in-r2\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak eases through in New York, faces Djere in R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Defending champion Novak Djokovic made a solid start to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Open<\/a> campaign on Monday evening in New York with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 triumph against Radu Albot to advance to the second round.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second seed converted six of 16 break points he earned to wrap a two-hour, seven-minute victory in Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I wanted to kick start the tournament in the right way and I think I did,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>&#8220;Some ups and downs which I think is normal, getting the rust off your shoulders coming off a different surface and the Olympic Games. I haven&#8217;t played on hard courts for six months. I&#8217;m still finding that groove, finding the tempo on the court.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (8-2), double faults (10-3), winners (23-15), unforced errors (40-45), total points won (98-78).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awaiting Djokovic in the second round is his compatriot and Davis Cup teammate, Laslo Djere, who eliminated Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany after a five-set battle (6-7, 6-1, 6-7, 6-4, 6-2).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak began his 2024 US Open campaign with a dominant first-round victory in Arthur Ashe Stadium. The defending champion defeated qualifier Radu Albot 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 in two hours and seven minutes. Next up for Djokovic is Laslo Djere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":167959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[133,310,101010469,101011866,101013421,101011960],"class_list":["post-167964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-defending-champion","tag-first-round","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-new-york","tag-us-open-2024-en","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167964","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=167964"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167971,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167964\/revisions\/167971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}