{"id":169420,"date":"2025-07-05T21:35:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=169420"},"modified":"2025-07-05T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:46:17","slug":"impressive-novak-captures-100th-wimbledon-win-for-a-spot-in-the-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/impressive-novak-captures-100th-wimbledon-win-for-a-spot-in-the-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Novak captures 100th Wimbledon win for a spot in R4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole has become just the 3rd player to record 100 match-wins at Wimbledon, after 9-time champion Martina Navratilova and 8-time champion Roger Federer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The all-Serbian third-round match at Wimbledon went to Novak Djokovic, who beat the 13-years-younger Miomir Kecmanovic on Saturday evening with a dominant 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 victory. With this triumph, Novak reached his 100th career win at the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted just one hour and 47 minutes. Novak showed once again that he&#8217;s in great form and easily booked his place in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p>Just like in his earlier matches at this year\u2019s tournament, Djokovic served really well.<\/p>\n<p>The first set lasted 40 minutes. The key moment came in the eighth game when the sixth seed broke Kecmanovic\u2019s serve and went up 5-3. He then held serve to win the set 6-3. Novak hit 22 winners and made just six unforced errors in this set.<\/p>\n<p>The second set was one-sided. The seven-time Wimbledon champion completely dominated, winning six games in a row &#8211; for a &#8220;bagel&#8221; 6-0. He won 24 points in that set, while Kecmanovic took just seven. Novak hit 13 winners and made only two errors.<\/p>\n<p>In the third set, there was a bit of drama. Djokovic went up 5\u20131 with two breaks but let his opponent come back to 5-4. Still, Djokovic held his nerve and served out the match with no problem, winning in straight sets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am very grateful, privileged to be in the position that I am,\u201d Djokovic said when asked about his 100th win. &#8220;I have said it many times. Tennis made me who I am. It has given me things in life that I can experience. I try not to take anything for granted, particularly at this age. I&#8217;m still going strong, trying to compete with the young players and do some slides and some splits on the court. Wimbledon is a favourite tournament and dream tournament of not just myself but probably the majority of tennis players. Growing up most of the kids dream of playing here and winning here and I am blessed to have done it multiple times. Any history that I make at my favourite tournament, I am blessed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>In the next round on Monday, Novak will face Alex de Minaur (2-1 H2H), the no.11 seed from Australia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The all-Serbian third-round match at Wimbledon went to Novak Djokovic, who beat the 13-years-younger Miomir Kecmanovic on Saturday evening with a dominant 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 victory. With this triumph, Novak reached his 100th career win at the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":169417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012193,101011449,1039,101013481],"class_list":["post-169420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-the-championships-en","tag-third-round","tag-wimbledon-2025-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169420","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=169420"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169426,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169420\/revisions\/169426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}