{"id":34241,"date":"2012-08-29T02:37:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T00:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=34241"},"modified":"2012-08-30T10:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T08:27:31","slug":"nole-storms-through-ny-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-storms-through-ny-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole storms through NY opener!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34236\" title=\"Auto Draft\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_07.jpg 594w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_07-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_07-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_07-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_07-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_07-590x393.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.2 Novak Djokovic opened his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usopen.org\/\">US Open<\/a> title defence campaign with a 6-1, 6-0, 6-1 victory over no.69-ranked Italian Paolo Lorenzi on Tuesday evening in New York to make a dominant start on Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole broke serve nine times from 13 opportunities to claim the win in just 73 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzi made a break in the opening game, but Novak then won 12 games in a row for two sets to love lead. The Italian managed to win only one more game and the 2011 champion advanced to the second round with ease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I tried to analyse my game, and my game was great from the start to the end,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s also important for me to try to be as economical with the time I spend on the court as possible, but obviously not underestimating any opponent. I played really focussed, tried to get to the net also. It was great all in all.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WwrTKpgh8KU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (7-0), double faults (0-6), winners (32-10), unforced errors (12-25), total points won (79-35).<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Belgrade native has improved to a 55-10 match record on the season (30-3 on hard court).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will next face no.112 Rogerio Dutra Silva of Brazil who beat Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili in five sets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will be their first career encounter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.2 opened his US Open title defence campaign with a convincing 6-1, 6-0, 6-1 victory over no.69-ranked Italian Paolo Lorenzi in just 73 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":34239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[133,310,101010469,101012296],"class_list":["post-34241","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-us-open-2012-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34241","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=34241"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34259,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34241\/revisions\/34259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}