Sony Open Tennis<\/a> tournament on Sunday with a comfortable 6-2, 6-4 victory over no.254 Somdev Devvarman in 68 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe two-time reigning champion won 93 percent of his first service points and converted three of his seven break points to win the first-time meeting with the Indian.<\/p>\n
Novak secured an early break and then raced through his service game to consolidate it. He broke Devvarman to love in the seventh game and sealed the set 6-2 in 33 minutes.<\/p>\n
The second set went with serve until the fifth game when Djokovic used the first of his three opportunities. The top seed served it out 6-4 to improve his 2013 record to 19-1.<\/p>\n
“Conditions were not so great. It was very difficult to get into the rhythm because you couldn’t really serve at your 100% and you had to go more for precision and you had to put twice as much effort in the step adjustments because of the windy conditions,”\u00a0<\/strong>Novak said.\u00a0“All in all, I’m just happy to get through the rough day.”<\/strong><\/p>\nMatch statistics<\/span>: aces (4-4), double faults (2-1), winners (17-8), unforced errors (26-21), total points won (59-43).<\/p>\nThe 25-year-old Belgrade native has won 14 matches in a row in Miami and has a 26-4 career mark.<\/p>\n
For a place in the quarterfinals, Novak will take on Tommy Haas on Tuesday about 21.30 local time (Wednesday 02.30 CET). The 15th seed advanced with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Aleksandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\nDjokovic has a 4-2 H2H record against the German and has won their past two meetings.<\/p>\n
“Tommy is very talented, he’s probably one of the most experienced active players in the world.\u00a0He can play equally well on any surface. He played a terrific match today in windy conditions. You can always expect Tommy to fight and try his best.\u00a0It’s going to be a tough match, and hopefully I can be fit to play my best.”<\/strong><\/p>\nPhoto: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sony Open Tennis top seed defeated Somdev Devvarman of India 6-2, 6-4 in 68 minutes to advance into the fourth round in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":44126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,133,101011163,101012434,1039],"class_list":["post-44130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-miami-2013en","tag-sony-open-tennis-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44130","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=44130"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44140,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44130\/revisions\/44140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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