{"id":70793,"date":"2015-07-01T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=70793"},"modified":"2015-07-01T17:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:01:58","slug":"nole-reaches-wimbledon-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-reaches-wimbledon-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole reaches Wimbledon third round"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Top seed Novak Djokovic needed one hour and 31 minutes to see off Jarrko Nieminen of Finland in straight sets in 34C heat on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Novak advanced into the third round of the 2015 Wimbledon Championships<\/a> with a routine 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 win.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The world no.1 was down a break early on but rarely faced much trouble from that point onwards. He played some high-quality tennis, breaking five times from 14 opportunities and winning 26 of 30 points when approaching the net (87%).<\/p>\n

The victory marks the seventh time that Nole and Nieminen met on the professional tour, with the 28-year-old Belgrade native holding a dominant 6-1 record.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s Nieminen\u2019s last Wimbledon so I congratulated him on a great career,” <\/strong>Djokovic said. “I think I did well through the three sets. I managed to regroup, play some good tennis and get control…<\/strong> On this warm day it’s good to spend less time on the court. <\/strong>I’m glad with the way I’m playing and getting into form. Hopefully I’ll be able to elevate the level of my performances as the tournament progresses.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (8-2), double faults (1-2), winners (38-15), unforced errors (13-18), total points won (95-65).<\/p>\n

Novak next plays no.27 seed Bernard Tomic on Friday.<\/strong> The defending champion has a perfect 3-0 H2H record against the Australian hope. They last met in 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

World no.1 eased into the Wimbledon Championships third round on Wednesday with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Jarkko Nieminen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":70791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[133,101012193,113,101011449,101011677],"class_list":["post-70793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-defending-champion","tag-london-en","tag-second-round","tag-the-championships-en","tag-wimbledon-2015-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70793","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=70793"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70818,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70793\/revisions\/70818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}