{"id":842,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T21:01:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-05T14:07:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:07:33","slug":"novak-breezes-into-the-third-round-of-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-breezes-into-the-third-round-of-roland-garros\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak breezes into the third round of Roland Garros!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/219.jpg> {nl}{nl}Fourth-seeded Novak Djokovic advanced to the third round of the French Open with a straight sets win over Ukranian qualifier Sergiy Stakhovsky, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 in 2 hours and 4 minutes. The second round match was suspended on Thursday due to bad light after 89 minutes of play, Djokovic was leading by two sets.{nl}{nl}Novak clinched the opening game of the match with a great forehand winner. At 40-30 for Stakhovsky in the third game Djokovic won three points in a row to get the first break of the match for 4-1 lead. The 22-year old had break points in the sixth and eighth game, but the Ukranian held. World no.4 got the set 6-3.{nl}{nl}Stakhovsky started the second set in great style. He broke Djokovic\u2019s service in the second game and then held to increase his lead to 3-0. The Ukranian was leading 4-1 when Nole won five games in a row, breaking his opponent\u2019s service twice, in the seventh and ninth game to take the set 6-4.{nl}{nl}The match was continued on Friday, and the Serb was anxious to wrap it up quickly.{nl}{nl}Djokovic spent 35 minutes on court. He made three breaks for 5-0 lead. Number four seed was serving for the match when Stakhovsky broke for 5-1. Novak earned two break-match points in the seventh game and capitalised on the second to close the match 6-1.{nl}{nl}Nole will face Philipp Kohlschreiber (29) in the third round. The German defeated 2003 French Open champion Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero in five sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth-seeded Novak Djokovic advanced to the third round of the French Open with a straight sets win over Ukranian qualifier Sergiy Stakhovsky, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 in 2 hours and 4 minutes. The second round match was suspended on Thursday due to bad light after 89 minutes of play, Djokovic was leading by two sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011740,101011901,598],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam","tag-roland-garros-2009","tag-stakhovsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23832,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/23832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}