{"id":43994,"date":"2013-03-23T04:33:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T03:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=43994"},"modified":"2013-03-23T06:07:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T05:07:46","slug":"novak-makes-strong-start-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-makes-strong-start-in-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak makes strong start in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nole<\/p>\n

Two-time defending champion Novak Djokovic won his opening-round match at the Sony Open Tennis<\/a>\u00a0tournament on Friday evening, defeating Lukas Rosol comfortably 6-1, 6-0 in their first career meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a match that started late due to a rain delay, the top seed won 82 percent of his first serve points and broke the Czech five times from seven opportunities to seal the win in 53 minutes.<\/p>\n

Novak made a double break in the opening set for 5-1 lead, and fended off two break points before serving it out 6-1.<\/p>\n

Djokovic kept the momentum going in the second set. He broke his opponent three times to book his place in the third round.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a great start,\u201d<\/strong> said the world no.1. \u201cAfter Indian Wells, I tried to rest. There are different conditions here, but tonight was perfect for tennis. I enjoyed every moment of it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (4-2), double faults (0-7), winners (21-12), unforced errors (10-21), total points won (61-32).<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Serbian star will next play against world no.254 Somdev Devvarman of India who eliminated Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin (LL) 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Belgrade native is bidding to win the title at the Crandon Park for the fourth time, after victories in 2007, 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n

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

Nole defeated Czech Lukas Rosol (64) in straight sets 6-1, 6-0 in just 53 minutes to reach the third round at the Sony Open Tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":42870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,133,101011163,113,101012434],"class_list":["post-43994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-miami-2013en","tag-second-round","tag-sony-open-tennis-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43994","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=43994"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43997,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43994\/revisions\/43997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}