{"id":762,"date":"2009-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:44:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:44:21","slug":"djokovic-battles-past-delic-to-reach-the-fourth-round-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/djokovic-battles-past-delic-to-reach-the-fourth-round-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic battles past Delic to reach the fourth round in Melbourne!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/\/127.jpg>{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo by Michael Babic<\/font>{nl}{nl}Defending champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the fourth round of Australian Open with a hard-fought 6:2 4:6 6:3 7:6(4) victory over world no.127 Amer Delic in 3 hours and 6 minutes on Rod Laver Arena on Friday.{nl}{nl}First set was very comfortable and solid from the world number three. He broke Delic&#8217;s service in the fourth game and then held to 15 to increase his lead to 4:1. The Serb faced break points in the seventh game. After saving the first, he got out of the trouble with an ace and held for 5:2. Djokovic made a second break to take the set 6:2.{nl}{nl}Delic earned himself a break point in the fifth game of the second set but Djokovic saved it with an ace. The American earned another one and used it to go up 3:2. Novak had an opportunity to break back immediately, but Delic held to increase his lead. There were no breaks til the end of the set and the 26-year-old won it 6:4.{nl}{nl}Djokovic made a break in the second game of the third set and then faced two break points, but saved the first with an ace and the second with a service winner to hold for 3:0. Number three seed was serving for the set at 5:3. He held to love for 6:3 and a two sets to one lead.{nl}{nl}Nole faced scare in the tenth game of the fourth set but he managed to save two break\/set points to equalise to 5:5. The set went to a tie-breaker and Djokovic won it 7-4.{nl}{nl}Novak hit 30 winners and 11 aces. He made 27 unforced errors and converted 3 of 8 break points.{nl}{nl}&#8221;I need some matches like this to feel really what is Grand Slam all about,&#8221; said Novak. &#8220;It&#8217;s about those long four&#8209;, five&#8209;set matches in the heat like this. I didn&#8217;t really plan to be that long on the court, of course. You always want to finish the job as soon as possible. As I said, the positive thing is that I got more time out there, and looking forward to the upcoming match.&#8221;{nl}{nl}His opponent in round four will be Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis who defeated American Mardy Fish (no.#23 seed) in straight sets.{nl}{nl}Djokovic and Baghdatis met twice in 2007, Nole won both matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the fourth round of Australian Open with a hard-fought 6:2 4:6 6:3 7:6(4) victory over world no.127 Amer Delic in 3 hours and 6 minutes on Rod Laver Arena on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010219],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2009-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28500,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/28500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}