{"id":65257,"date":"2015-01-22T05:52:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T04:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=65257"},"modified":"2015-01-26T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:53:02","slug":"ao-2015-nole-marches-into-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/ao-2015-nole-marches-into-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"AO 2015: Nole marches into third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65252\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ausopen2015_07.jpg\" alt=\"Novak prejak za Kuznjecova\" width=\"590\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ausopen2015_07.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ausopen2015_07-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ausopen2015_07-267x166.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed and four-time former titlist Novak Djokovic wasted no time in seeing off world no.88 Andrey Kuznetsov in straight sets 6-0, 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday on Rod Laver Arena.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak converted seven of his 13 break points and surrendered serve once, easing into the third round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> in one hour and 24 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 won 86% of his first service points and was 7\/8 on net approaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;First two sets definitely have been great,&#8221;<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>&#8220;Overall I executed the game plan. Everything I intended to do, almost 100 per cent, from every second in my game, serve, baseline play, aggressive shots and aggressive returns. He dropped his first-serve percentage a lot in the second set which gave me an opportunity to step in and just swing through the ball.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Match statistics<\/span>: aces (8-2), double faults (2-3), winners (28-10), unforced errors (19-34), total points won (89-48).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/13I1p_ulW-o\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak next plays 31st-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco (6-4 H2H) who beat Japan&#8217;s Go Soeda in straight sets.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Serb is bidding to become the second man in history, following Roy Emerson, to win five Australian Open titles.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak ousted world no.88 Andrey Kuznetsov in straight sets 6-0, 6-1, 6-4 in one hour and 24 minutes on Thursday to ease into the third round in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":65252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011597,101010469,101012415,113],"class_list":["post-65257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2015-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-melbourne-en","tag-second-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65257","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=65257"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65570,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65257\/revisions\/65570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}