{"id":169517,"date":"2025-08-25T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=169517"},"modified":"2025-08-25T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:26:08","slug":"novak-advances-into-second-round-at-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-advances-into-second-round-at-the-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak advances into second round at the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak Djokovic kicked off his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Open<\/a> campaign with a strong performance. In the first round, he defeated American Learner Tien (ATP #50) in straight sets 6-1, 7-6 (3), 6-2 and moved on to the R2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seventh seed and four-time US Open champion spent two hours and 25 minutes on court in this opening match.<\/p>\n<p>Novak took control from the very beginning. With only four unforced errors and two solid breaks of serve, he quickly won the first set 6-1 against the 19-year-old up-and-coming home hope, who struggled to find his rhythm and made many mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>The second set was more competitive. Novak missed break chances early on and had to fight off three break points in the sixth game. At 4-5, he even faced a set point but managed to hold on and level the score at 5-5. The tie-break was full of twists \u2013 the first six points were all mini-breaks, but Novak then won four points in a row to take the tie-break 7-3 and go up 2-0 in sets.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the Serbian star lost his serve for the first time early in the third set, he quickly regained control and wrapped up the set and match 6-2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt was a strange kind of match. The first set was 20 minutes and then the second one was one hour and 20, so quite the opposite sets we played,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said. <strong>\u201cIt was key for me to hold my nerves in the second set and clinch it in a tie-break. After that I started feeling better. I can always do better but it\u2019s a great way to start this year\u2019s campaign.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (7-1), double faults (4-7), winners (26-18), unforced errors (34-36), total points won (108-75).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up for Novak is another American, qualifier Zachary Svajda (ATP #145), who defeated Hungarian Zsombor Piros (6-4, 6-2, 7-5).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak kicked off his US Open campaign with a strong performance. In the first round, he defeated American Learner Tien (ATP #50) in straight sets 6-1, 7-6 (3), 6-2 and moved on to the R2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":169511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[310,101011740,101011866,101013485,101011960],"class_list":["post-169517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-first-round","tag-grand-slam","tag-new-york","tag-us-open-2025-en","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169517","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=169517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169518,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169517\/revisions\/169518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}