{"id":79207,"date":"2016-03-26T02:45:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T01:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=79207"},"modified":"2016-03-26T07:27:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T06:27:30","slug":"nole-into-miami-open-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-into-miami-open-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole into Miami Open third round"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

Five-time Miami Open<\/a> champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the third round with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over world no.87 Kyle Edmund (GBR) on Friday evening at the second ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tennis tournament in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The top seed opened title defence in comfortable fashion, converting four of 11 opportunities on Edmund\u2019s serve in the one hour, 20-minute match to improve to a 37-5 record at the Crandon Park Tennis Center.<\/p>\n

Match statistics: aces (2-0), double faults (1-2), winners (13-14), unforced errors (18-35).<\/p>\n

Djokovic is bidding for his fourth ATP World Tour title of the season. He has compiled a 23-1 match record, including trophies in Doha, Melbourne and Indian Wells.<\/p>\n

Novak will take a 2-0 career lead into his clash with no.33 seed Joao Sousa of Portugal, who defeated Canada\u2019s Vasek Pospisil 6-7, 7-6, 6-2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The defending champion advanced with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Kyle Edmund (GBR) on Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":79204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,133,101012436,101012547,113,101012292],"class_list":["post-79207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-miami-en","tag-miami-open-2016-en","tag-second-round","tag-usa-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79207","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=79207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79210,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79207\/revisions\/79210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}