{"id":34320,"date":"2012-08-31T20:57:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T19:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=34320"},"modified":"2012-09-01T20:05:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:05:09","slug":"novak-marches-on-wins-450th-career-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-marches-on-wins-450th-career-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole marches on, wins 450th career match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34314\" title=\"Auto Draft\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_2_kolo_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_2_kolo_01.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_2_kolo_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_2_kolo_01-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_2_kolo_01-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/usopen2012_2_kolo_01-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second seed Novak Djokovic moved to the third round of the 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usopen.org\/index.html\">US Open<\/a> after dismissing Rogerio Dutra Silva of Brazil 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 on Friday on Arthur Ashe Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The defending champion struck 29 winners and broke 112th-ranked Silva six times from 16 opportunities to clinch the victory in 1 hour and 39 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It was different conditions today obviously from the first match I played, the night session,&#8221;<\/strong> said Novak. <strong>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know much about my opponent. Never saw him play. So that could have been a difficulty at the start in order to figure out what his game plan is. But I played well from the start to the end.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kJ5BDhEVLbw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (6-3), double faults (1-1), winners (29-17), unforced errors (14-36), total points won (91-56).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nole will next play against no.31 seed Frenchman Julien Benneteau who beat American Dennis Novikov in four sets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They have met five times, Novak leads 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Belgrade native\u00a0has dropped just seven games in two matches at Flushing Meadows. He improved to a 56-10 record on the season (31-3 on hard court) and scored his 450th career win.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second seed advanced to the third round of the 2012 US Open after dismissing Rogerio Dutra Silva of Brazil 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 in 1 hour and 39 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":34313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,113,101010669],"class_list":["post-34320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-second-round","tag-us-open-2012en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34320","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=34320"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34381,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34320\/revisions\/34381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}