{"id":49945,"date":"2013-08-14T22:48:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=49945"},"modified":"2013-08-15T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T10:18:39","slug":"novak-reaches-third-round-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-reaches-third-round-in-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak reaches third round in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49940\" alt=\"Pobeda Novaka u drugom kolu Sinsinatija\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cincinnati2013_011.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cincinnati2013_011.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cincinnati2013_011-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cincinnati2013_011-267x147.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed Novak Djokovic recorded a 7-5, 6-2 victory over world no.32 Juan Monaco in second round action of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincytennis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Western &amp; Southern Open<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match lasted one hour and 17 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Novak now has an 8-0 career head-to-head advantage against the Argentine.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic made a break in the fourth game and consolidated it for 4-1 lead. Monaco fought back breaking Novak&#8217;s serve twice, earning the opportunity to serve for the set. However, Nole played a great game and managed to level the result to 5-all. One more break for the reigning world no.1 in the 12th game brought him one-set advantage.<\/p>\n<p>From there, is was the Nole show. He took the momentum and with two breaks, in the fourth and eighth games, won the second set and match 6-2.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (5-2), double faults (2-2), winners (17-8), unforced errors (28-34), total points won (66-45).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xccj9bPmnKU\" height=\"332\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will face no.80-ranked David Goffin on Thursday (1-0). The Belgian beat Vasek Pospisil in three sets earlier today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Belgrade native is playing in Cincinnati for the ninth straight year (20-8 record) and has been runner-up four times (2008-09, \u201911-12).<\/p>\n<p>If he wins the title he will become the first singles player to complete the Career Golden Masters by winning all nine ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four-time runner-up defeated Argentine Juan Monaco 7-5, 6-2 in 77 minutes on Wednesday to reach the the last 16 of the ATP Masters event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":49940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011266,113],"class_list":["post-49945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-cincinnati-2013-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49945","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=49945"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49949,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49945\/revisions\/49949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}