{"id":47974,"date":"2013-06-25T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=47974"},"modified":"2013-06-25T23:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T21:45:28","slug":"novak-opens-wimbledon-bid-with-straight-sets-win-over-mayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-opens-wimbledon-bid-with-straight-sets-win-over-mayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak opens Wimbledon bid with straight sets win over Mayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

Great start for Nole at the 127th edition of The Championships.<\/p>\n

The world no.1 opened his campaign for a second Wimbledon <\/a>title on Tuesday at the All England Club with a 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 victory over\u00a034th-ranked<\/strong>\u00a0Florian Mayer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He needed one hour and 56 minutes to beat the German for the second straight year in London, improving to a 34-5 record on the season.\u00a0It was their fourth H2H meeting (4-0).<\/p>\n

Novak broke Mayer’s opening service game and took the first set 6-3 in 29 minutes.<\/p>\n

The second set went on serve until the 11th game when the top-seeded Serb broke his rival for the second time in the match. He closed it 7-5\u00a0to take a two sets to love lead.<\/p>\n

A break in the opening game of the third set was enough for Novak to book his place in the second round of the only grass court Major event.<\/p>\n

“It was a big pleasure again performing here on Centre Court in front of the packed crowd,”<\/strong>\u00a0Djokovic said. “It was my first official match on grass this season and my first at Wimbledon, and I’m satisfied.\u00a0<\/strong>It was tricky, Florian is a very good opponent with a good variety of shots. His game is well suited for grass. It took a lot of effort to come through.\u00a0There are still a few things I would like to do better. I could serve better. But my game is there. I’m still trying to find my rhythm.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (5-3), double faults (0-0), winners (40-25), unforced errors (20-12), total points won (109-86).<\/p>\n

The 2011 Wimbledon champion goes on to face American Bobby Reynolds (beat compatriot Steve Johnson) in the second round on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Nole opened his campaign for a second Wimbledon title on Tuesday with a 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 victory over world no.34 German Florian Mayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":47960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[310,101010469,101012193,101012447],"class_list":["post-47974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-first-round","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-wimbledon-2013-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47974","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=47974"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47978,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47974\/revisions\/47978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}