{"id":32768,"date":"2012-07-29T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T19:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=32768"},"modified":"2012-07-30T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T16:08:08","slug":"og-nole-through-to-2nd-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/og-nole-through-to-2nd-round\/","title":{"rendered":"OG: Nole through to 2nd round"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reigning bronze medalist Novak Djokovic opened his London Olympics campaign with a 6-7(7), 6-2, 6-2 win over Italy’s Fabio Fognini on the second day of the Olympic tennis on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nole came back from a set down to seal his first victory in 1 hour and 52 minutes at All England Club, Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

The match started with 2 hours delay because of heavy rain, and was suspended at 7-7 in the first set tie-breaker.<\/p>\n

Djokovic first made a break for 5-3 lead. He earned a set point in the next game, but the Italian broke back and leveled at 5-all. Novak had one more set point in the 12th game, but the 65th ranked Fognini held for 6-6. The world no.2 missed his third set point opportunity at 7-6 in the tie-breaker, Fognini took the next three points and clinched the set 9-7.<\/p>\n

Nole raised the level of his game in the second and third sets, made a double break in each and won them with the same score, 6-2.<\/p>\n

“I haven\u2019t played an official match since Wimbledon, so it took me a set and a half to really get into the rhythm and obviously the rain delay affected the game and I wasn\u2019t sharp enough after it,”<\/strong> Novak said. “Fognini made some great winners and he was a set up. Then I had to be really focused for each game, try to break him and the second and third sets were really going my way.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (11-4), double faults (1-3), winners (33-19), unforced errors (23-27).<\/p>\n

The second-seeded Serbian star will play USA’s Andy Roddick in the second round on Tuesday. Roddick beat Martin Klizan from Slovakia in his opening match in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nole and Viktor Troicki are no.8 seeds in doubles competition. They will face Sweden’s duo of Robert Linstedt and Johan Brunstrom on Monday.<\/p>\n

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

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