{"id":48189,"date":"2013-06-29T21:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=48189"},"modified":"2013-06-30T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T09:58:00","slug":"masterful-novak-dismisses-chardy-breezes-into-the-second-week-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/masterful-novak-dismisses-chardy-breezes-into-the-second-week-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Masterful Novak dismisses Chardy, breezes into second week in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

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World no.1 Novak Djokovic produced some stunning tennis on Centre Court on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

The top seed eased into the fourth round of Wimbledon<\/a> with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win over no.25-ranked Frenchman Jeremy Chardy in 86 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was his 50th tour-level win on grass and saw him through to the Championships last 16 for the fifth year in a row.<\/p>\n

Nole broke Chardy’s resistance in the eighth game of the opening set and consolidated it for 6-3 in 29 minutes.<\/p>\n

The reigning Australian Open titlist made a double break in both second and third sets, wrapping-up the one-sided contest. He improved his perfect record against Chardy to 7-0.<\/p>\n

“It’s never easy against Chardy. He’s a quality player; he won Wimbledon juniors. I managed to neutralize his serve, made a crucial break at 4-3 in the first set, and everything went my way really,”<\/strong> said the only former Wimbledon champion left in the men\u2019s draw. “I did everything I wanted, didn\u2019t lose many points on serve. When you play that well, you feel great, you feel confident. Not many times it happens on grass against a big server that you get to play this well and return this well. I managed to find the right balance.\u00a0This kind of performance came in the right time for me.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (8-6), double faults (1-4), winners (38-17), unforced errors (3-13), total points won (93-52).<\/p>\n

Djokovic converted five of his 16 break point chances and did not face a single break point during the match, losing just six points on his own serve.<\/p>\n

He won 93 percent of his first-serve points and 86% of points on his second serve.<\/p>\n

Novak will face no.13 seed and former no.2 Tommy Haas on Monday, for a place in the quarter-finals. The German beat Spaniard Feliciano Lopez earlier today.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The six-time Major winner leads Haas in their career head-to-head 5-3; the Hamburg native won both of their grass-court encounters (2009 Halle and Wimbledon).<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the Haas clash, Novak said: “He’s playing maybe the best tennis ever. He’s feeling great, he’s so fit.\u00a0<\/strong>I don’t see any clear favorite to be honest.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Nole defeated no.28 seed Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in 86 minutes on Saturday to reach the last 16 at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":48187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012193,1039,101012447],"class_list":["post-48189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-third-round","tag-wimbledon-2013-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48189","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=48189"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48197,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48189\/revisions\/48197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}