{"id":30324,"date":"2012-05-30T12:36:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T11:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=30324"},"modified":"2012-06-07T09:56:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T08:56:48","slug":"novak-tops-kavcic-to-reach-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-tops-kavcic-to-reach-round-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak tops Kavcic to reach Round 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Top-seeded Novak Djokovic defeated Blaz Kavcic 6-0, 6-4, 6-4 in two hours and 14 minutes in the second round at the French Open on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the straight sets victory on Suzanne Lenglen, Nole improved to 2-0 lifetime against the Slovenian.<\/p>\n

Novak raced through the opening set with a triple break in just 23 minutes.<\/p>\n

He opened the second set with a solid hold. Kavcic finally managed to win a game on his serve and from that moment both players showed some superb tennis. Nole lost his focus and concentration in the third game. Kavcic made a break and consolidated it for 3-1 lead. The 25-year-old Serbian star fought back in the eighth game to level at 4-4 and broke his opponent once again for two sets to love advantage.<\/p>\n

The third set went on serve until the tenth game, when Djokovic converted his fourth break\/match point to book his place in the third round of Roland Garros<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He was defending really well in the second and third sets, especially in the second,”<\/strong> said Novak. “I gave him the opportunity to come back to the match after a perfect first set, first seven games. Of course I didn’t underestimate my opponent today. I expected him to fight. I expected him to come back. He didn’t have anything to lose, and he showed his quality and it was a really, really great second and third set.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I’m happy with the game overall. I think everything was working really well. I’m feeling better and better every match.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The world no.1 won 36 of 49 first service points and 13 of 23 points on approach to the net.<\/p>\n

He hit 5 aces and 41 winners, and\u00a0broke Kavcic’s serve 6 times.<\/p>\n

Djokovic, a five-time Grand Slam Champion, will next meet \u00a0world no.286 Frenchman Nicolas Devilder who eliminated German Michael Berrer 7-6(5), 6-4, 6-2<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They have never played against eachother before.<\/p>\n

Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nole beat Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia 6-0, 6-4, 6-4 to move into the third round of Roland Garros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":30333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012265,113],"class_list":["post-30324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-roland-garros-2012-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30324","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=30324"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30773,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30324\/revisions\/30773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}