Wimbledon<\/a> crown as he beat the Frenchman 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 in two hours and 12 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe 2011 titlist displayed his power game in the most important moments.<\/p>\n
In a close first set, players traded breaks once, but Novak made a crucial one in the 10th game for 6-4.<\/p>\n
The similar happened in the second set, but this time, after exchanging breaks, Djokovic broke twice more for two set to love lead.<\/p>\n
Novak went a break down at the start of the third set, but fought back in the fourth game and held to go 3-2 up. In the next game, the Belgrade native got treatment on his left shoulder following a fall. He picked himself up and managed to convert his break\/match point in the 10th game, improving his H2H record with Simon to 7-1.<\/p>\n
“I played well though I dropped a couple of service games. It could have gone either way in the third but in the important moments I came up with the right selection of shots,”<\/strong> Djokovic said. “It was a sharp pain when I fell, and I was just hoping there was nothing wrong with the joint. I’m just glad to get through.”<\/strong><\/p>\nMatch statistics<\/span>: aces (7-3), double faults (2-4), winners (31-23), unforced errors (23-28), total points won (100-83).<\/p>\nNovak now progresses to the round of 16, where he\u2019ll meet no.14 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who beat Jimmy Wang (TPE) in straight sets.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe top-seeded Serb has a 12-7 record with the Frenchman. He won their last eight encounters.<\/p>\n
“Tsonga is a great grass-court player, he loves the energy of the big stadium and it is going to be a big challenge for both of us.”<\/strong><\/p>\nPhoto: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2011 titlist withstood a challenging third round encounter against Gilles Simon, as he beat the Frenchman 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 in two hours and 12 minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":59632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101012193,101011449,1039,101012463],"class_list":["post-59634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-the-championships-en","tag-third-round","tag-wimbledon-2014-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59634","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=59634"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59644,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59634\/revisions\/59644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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