{"id":73969,"date":"2015-10-06T11:55:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T09:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=73969"},"modified":"2015-10-07T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:19:08","slug":"atp-beijing-novak-eases-through-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/atp-beijing-novak-eases-through-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak eases through opener, advances in doubles with brother Djordje"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

Five-time champion Novak Djokovic defeated world no.59 Simone Bolelli 6-1 6-1 in the first round of the China Open<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The top seed came into the match holding a 3-0 advantage in the pair’s Head2Head series. He improved the record in one hour and 11 minutes, breaking the Italian 5 times from 10 opportunities, and saving all five break points he faced during the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I played on a very high level considering it’s my first official match after the US Open,\u201d<\/strong> said Novak. \u201cObviously in the first matches you still don’t know how you’re going to start out. It takes time for you to adjust to the conditions and so forth. I came out with a great intensity, played some of my best tennis on this court, and managed to win against a player that I thought was playing well.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics: aces (7-2), double faults (0-1), winners (22-14), unforced errors (14-17).<\/p>\n

Next up for the 28-year-old Serbian star is world no.219, Chinese wild card Ze Zhang, who eliminated Denis Istomin in three sets 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. It will be their first career meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Novak<\/p>\n

Novak teamed up with his brother Djordje in the doubles competition. They beat Mao-Xin Gong (CHN) and Michael Venus (NZL) 7-6 (5), 6-7 (6), 10-5 in the first round, and go on to face Vasek Pospisil (CAN) and Jack Sock in quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

“We both have waited a lifetime to team up. I’m glad I get to have Djordje on this side of the net.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Nole moved to 25-0 at the China Open with a 6-1 6-1 win over Simone Bolelli on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":73982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101012343,101012345,101012475,101012476],"class_list":["post-73969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-beijing-en","tag-china-en","tag-china-open-en","tag-first-round-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73969","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73969"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74018,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73969\/revisions\/74018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}