{"id":43474,"date":"2013-03-13T00:43:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T23:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=43474"},"modified":"2013-03-13T17:53:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:53:26","slug":"nole-beats-dimitrov-to-reach-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-beats-dimitrov-to-reach-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole beats Dimitrov to reach last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43468\" alt=\"Nole preko Dimitrova do osmine finala BNP Paribas Open&quot;-a\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/iw_03.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/iw_03.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/iw_03-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/iw_03-267x184.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2008 and 2011 Indian Wells champion Novak Djokovic overcame a slow start to beat no.31 seed Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 7-6 (4), 6-1 on Tuesday and advance into the fourth round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnpparibasopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BNP Paribas Open<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top seed rallied from 2-5 down in the opening set to claim victory in 67 minutes, extending his winning streak to 20 matches (15-0 record in 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Dimitrov delivered four double faults while serving for the set. Nole converted his second break point and held serve in emphatic fashion to level the result to 5-5. The 25-year-old Belgrade native took the set 7-4 on the tie-break in 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic made a double break in the second set, capitalising on his chances in the second and sixth games, and served it out 6-1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I tried to hang in there and stay in the match,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said courtside. <strong>&#8220;I started very bad, very poor.\u00a0He served very well but he made four double faults at 5-3 and got me back into the match. He made a lot of unforced errors and I just had to get the ball back in the court.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (1-5), double faults (3-6), winners (10-11), unforced errors (22-26), total points won (64-47).<\/p>\n<p>The Serb broke his opponent three times from five opportunities and won 78 per cent of points behind his first serve, improving his career record against the Bulgarian to 2-0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic will face no.23 seed Sam Querrey on Wednesday about 20.30 local time (Thursday 04.30 CET)\u00a0<strong>for a place in the quarter-finals.\u00a0<\/strong>The American eliminated Australia&#8217;s Marinko Matosevic 7-6, 6-7, 7-5 in two hours and 46 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak leads their ATP Head2Head series 4-1; Querrey won their last meeting in the second round of the 2012 Paris Masters 0-6, 7-6(5), 6-4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It will be very interesting. He won our last encounter in Paris indoors a few months ago. I played a few tournaments since then. Now we have different circumstances and conditions. We&#8217;ll play in front of his crowd. He has a big serve and big game. I will need to definitely start better than I have done today, and try to step into the court a little bit more,&#8221;<\/strong> the world no.1 said about the upcoming challenge.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCXfKvvorq0\" height=\"332\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak defeated no.31 seed Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 (4), 6-1 in 67 minutes to book his place in the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":43469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012371,101011151,1039],"class_list":["post-43474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-bnp-paribas-open-en","tag-indian-wells-2013","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43474","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=43474"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43489,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43474\/revisions\/43489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}