{"id":84576,"date":"2016-10-11T13:46:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T11:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=84576"},"modified":"2016-10-13T17:01:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:01:21","slug":"novak-opens-shanghai-title-defence-with-straight-sets-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-opens-shanghai-title-defence-with-straight-sets-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak opens Shanghai title defence with straight sets victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic cruised into the third round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters<\/a> on Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over world no.50 Fabio Fognini.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his first match after the US Open final, Novak needed 75 minutes to clinch his eighth win over the Italian in as many meetings. He improved to a 57-6 season record.<\/p>\n

Djokovic broke four times from five opportunities and saved three of four break points he faced. Down 2-3, 0-15 in the second set, the world no.1 won 16 straight points and four games in a row to advance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just pleased to be back on the court, considering I skipped Beijing that I planned to play. I had great memories and success in the past in this tournament, on this court,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said. \u201cI was just trying to focus on my game and things that I worked on the last couple of weeks… I believe things will progress as days go by.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (3-0), double faults (4-7), winners (13-15), unforced errors (18-40), total points won (68-47).<\/p>\n

Novak goes on to face Canadian qualifier Vasek Pospisil on Thursday (3-0 H2H).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Belgrade native is attempting to capture his eighth tour-level title of the year this week.<\/p>\n

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

Nole began his title quest at the ATP Masters 1000 event with a comfortable 6-3, 6-3 victory over world no. 50 Fabio Fognini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":84578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,133,113,101011765,101012601],"class_list":["post-84576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-second-round","tag-shanghai","tag-shanghai-rolex-masters-2016-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84576","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=84576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84604,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84576\/revisions\/84604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}