{"id":50522,"date":"2013-09-02T03:14:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T01:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=50522"},"modified":"2013-09-06T05:11:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T03:11:59","slug":"novak-makes-light-work-of-sousa-reaches-last-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-makes-light-work-of-sousa-reaches-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole makes light work of Sousa, reaches last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nole<\/p>\n

2011 US Open<\/a> champion Novak Djokovic cruised into the fourth round of the final Major event of the season, crushing Portuguese Joao Sousa 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 under the lights of Arthur Ashe Stadium\u00a0on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Serbian top seed looked very comfortable on the court. He needed one hour and 40 minutes to record the victory, staying on course for a possible semi-final clash against defending champion Andy Murray.<\/p>\n

Novak dominated the 95th ranked Sousa, breaking him eight times from 13 opportunities, dropping serve once during the match.<\/p>\n

The reigning world no.1 stormed through the opening set with a triple break in 28 minutes.<\/p>\n

Novak continued the momentum into the second set, and with breaks in the fourth and eighth games, cemented his lead.<\/p>\n

He raced to a 5-0 advantage in the third set and closed the match three games later.<\/p>\n

“It’s definitely a unique experience, and NY has this unique vibe, especially in the night,”<\/strong> said Djokovic, on playing under the lights inside Arthur Ashe Stadium. “I’ve been working on basically every element in my game, so hopefully I can serve a little bit more efficiently and get some more free points on that in the next matches.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (3-2), double faults (2-3), winners (32-10), unforced errors (26-27), total points won (94-54).<\/p>\n

Novak will play against world no.43 Marcel Granollers (1-0) on Tuesday. The Spaniard prevailed over no.109-ranked American Tim Smyczek in five sets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can download Nole September Desktop Wallpaper here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Novak moved into the fourth round at Flushing Meadows with a convincing 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Joao Sousa of Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":50512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012298,1039,101012453],"class_list":["post-50522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-new-york-en","tag-third-round","tag-us-open-2013-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50522","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=50522"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50528,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50522\/revisions\/50528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}