{"id":51576,"date":"2013-10-01T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T08:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=51576"},"modified":"2013-10-03T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T19:11:06","slug":"nole-storms-into-beijing-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-storms-into-beijing-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole storms into Beijing second round"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nole<\/p>\n

Top seed Novak Djokovic made a strong start to his China Open<\/a> campaign on Tuesday, dismissing Lukas Rosol 6-0, 6-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The world no.1 opened his title defence in convincing fashion breaking the Czech four times for victory in just 53 minutes, as he improved to a 53-9 match record in 2013.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t want to under-estimate my opponent knowing that he had few big wins in his career and he has a big serve,”<\/strong> said Novak. “I needed to be very fresh from the start and try to bring the positive intensity to the court, and that’s what happened.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/span>: aces (4-1), double faults (0-3), total points won (58-30).<\/p>\n

Novak will play against no.31-ranked Spaniard Fernando Verdasco for a place in the last eight (5-4 H2H record).<\/strong>\u00a0The match is scheduled on Thursday,<\/p>\n

\"Nole<\/p>\n

Djokovic is a three-time champion in Beijing (2009-10, 2012) and is aiming to win his fourth title of the season.<\/p>\n

Last year, he defeated Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the finals (7-6, 6-2).<\/p>\n

Nole has teamed up with Stanislas Wawrinka in the doubles competition. They upset the second-seeded duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Robert Lindstedt 6-3, 6-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Serbian-Swiss pairing will face Germans Tommy Haas and Florian Mayer in quarter-finals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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

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

Novak opened his title defence in convincing fashion, beating Lukas Rosol 6-0, 6-3 in just 53 minutes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":51567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101011298,101012456,133,310],"class_list":["post-51576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-beijing-2013-en","tag-china-open-2013-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-first-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51576","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=51576"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51586,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51576\/revisions\/51586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}