{"id":80178,"date":"2016-05-04T18:15:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=80178"},"modified":"2016-05-04T22:02:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T20:02:25","slug":"nole-reaches-madrid-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-reaches-madrid-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole reaches Madrid third round"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Top seed and 2011 champion Novak Djokovic began his quest for a second Mutua Madrid Open<\/a> crown and 29th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title on Wednesday against the Next Generation star Borna Coric.<\/p>\n

Novak broke twice in the first set and once in the second to advance – 6-2, 6-4 in 78 minutes.<\/p>\n

The Serbian ace won 85 per cent of his first-serve points and was 6\/7 on net approaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a satisfying performance against a young player that I have never played against, somebody who is in form,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said. \u201cI watched his match against Almagro who won a tournament last week, and he beat him comfortably. That deserves respect. We know each other well. We\u2019ve practiced many times. I do see myself in him a little bit. We play a similar style. He’s a great fighter. For his age, he\u2019s quite mature and mentally tough. Today was the first official match we\u2019ve played against each other, I’m happy with my performance. It was a fun match to be part of.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (2-4), double faults (4-0), winners (16-11), unforced errors (14-23).<\/p>\n

Novak next faces no.15 seed Roberto Bautista Agut (3-0 H2H). The Spaniard progressed with a 6-3, 5-7, 7-5 victory over his compatriot Feliciano Lopez.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Novak beat the Next Generation star Borna Coric (ATP #40) 6-2, 6-4 in 78 minutes to move into the last 16 at Caja M\u00e1gica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":80172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012203,101012561,101011697],"class_list":["post-80178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-madrid-en","tag-mutua-madrid-open-2016-en","tag-second-round-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80178","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=80178"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80198,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80178\/revisions\/80198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}