{"id":79228,"date":"2016-03-28T01:07:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T23:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=79228"},"modified":"2016-03-28T14:48:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T12:48:18","slug":"novak-eases-past-sousa-to-book-spot-in-r4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-eases-past-sousa-to-book-spot-in-r4\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Miami: Novak eases past Sousa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Majami:<\/p>\n

World no.1 Novak Djokovic eased past no.33 seed Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-4, 6-1 in the third round of the Miami Open presented by Ita\u00fa<\/a> on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the first set, the two traded breaks once before Novak took over and served it out. The top-seeded Serbian star stormed through the second set with three breaks of serve, and improved to a 24-1 record on the season.<\/p>\n

Djokovic won 76% of his first service points and saved three of four break points he faced during the one hour, 18-minute clash. He won 100% of net approaches (6\/6).<\/p>\n

\u201cThat first set came down to a few points,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said. \u201cAfter that, it was quite a good performance. In the second set I felt much more comfortable. I was serving very well the entire day. I’m glad that I managed to finish the match the way I did. Obviously, it gives me confidence for the next one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (9-1), double faults (4-3), winners (22-10), unforced errors (18-26).<\/p>\n

Novak will face up-and-coming ATP player, no.14 seed Dominic Thiem, for a place in the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event quarter-final.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The defending champion has a 1-0 career H2H lead over the 22-year-old Austrian hope.<\/p>\n

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

Nole earned a place in the fourth round of the 2016 Miami Masters with a 6-4, 6-1 win over no.33 seed Joao Sousa on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":79225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,133,101012547,1039],"class_list":["post-79228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-miami-open-2016-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79228","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=79228"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79245,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79228\/revisions\/79245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}