{"id":87700,"date":"2017-03-15T05:59:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T04:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=87700"},"modified":"2017-03-15T11:32:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T10:32:49","slug":"bnp-paribas-open-novak-beats-delpo-faces-kyrgios-in-r4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/bnp-paribas-open-novak-beats-delpo-faces-kyrgios-in-r4\/","title":{"rendered":"BNP Paribas Open: Novak beats Delpo, faces Kyrgios in R4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87690\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/iw2017_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/iw2017_05.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/iw2017_05-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/iw2017_05-267x200.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.2 Novak Djokovic advanced into the fourth round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnpparibasopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BNP Paribas Open<\/a> on Tuesday night as he beat Juan Martin del Potro 7-5, 4-6, 6-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The five-time titlist needed two hours and 16 minutes to outplay the 2013 finalist in a highly anticipated third-round showdown at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Novak suffered an early break in the opening set, but responded by breaking his rival in the sixth and 12th games.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic then found himself down a double break in the second set. He broke back once, but del Potro managed to close it out four games later, sending the match to a decider.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champion stormed through the final set with a remarkable display of power-hitting. He broke twice to seal his 11th win of the season, improving to a 13-3 H2H record against the Argentine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It was definitely difficult to overcome this challenge tonight,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>&#8220;The third set was probably the best tennis that I played this year and I&#8217;m just glad I was able to pick up my game.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mo_6ALsVHiw?rel=0?ecver=1\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><u>Match statistics<\/u>: aces (4-13), double faults (1-3), winners (34-31), unforced errors (28-28), total points won (99-79).<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Nole joined Roger Federer (332) and Rafael Nadal (319) as the third player to earn 300 ATP Masters 1000 victories.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has won 19 straight matches at the BNP Paribas Open, which is the longest winning streak in the tournament\u2019s 42-year history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will meet no.15 seed Nick Kyrgios in the BNP Paribas Open last 16.<\/strong> The 21-year-old Australian won their only previous encounter, in Acapulco quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djokovic earned his 300th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 victory, beating no.31 seed Juan Martin del Potro 7-5, 4-6, 6-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":87691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012695,133,101010619,1039],"class_list":["post-87700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-bnp-paribas-open-2017-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-del-potro-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87700","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=87700"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87728,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87700\/revisions\/87728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}