2017 French Open<\/a> with a 7-6 (5), 6-1, 6-3 victory over the Spaniard in two hours and 27 minutes on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\nNovak converted seven of 10 break point chances, having saved five of eight break points he faced. The defending champion is into the quarter-finals on the Parisian clay for the eighth straight year.<\/p>\n
Djokovic came back twice from a break deficit in the opening set, before prevailing in a tie-breaker 7-5.<\/p>\n
Riding the momentum, the 30-year-old Belgrade native stormed to a 4-0 lead in the second set, and broke the Spaniard once again in the seventh game for two sets to love advantage.<\/p>\n
After saving a break point in the first game of the third set, Novak converted his chance for a 2-0 lead. His opponent broke back straight away and held to level the score. The 12-time Grand Slam titlist made another break in the sixth game and served it out three games later, improving his ATP H2H record against Ramos-Vinolas to 4-0.<\/p>\n
“I just didn’t start out of the blocks the way I wanted,”<\/strong> said Djokovic. “He started very solid, not making errors and just spinning the ball well, getting a lot of balls back. There were a lot of breaks and rebreaks in the first set. But it was very close. It could have gone either way and I’m just glad that I managed to win that tie-break, because after that I started playing with more freedom and more confidence. The second and third went really well. I thought especially in the second I did things very well from the back of the court. I mixed it up and didn’t give him any comfort zone on the court. I always made him guess, which was one of the keys.”<\/strong><\/p>\nMatch statistics<\/u>: aces (3-3), double faults (0-2), winners (34-28), unforced errors (30-37) total points won (111-87).<\/p>\n
Awaiting Novak in the last 8 will be sixth seed Dominic Thiem (5-0 H2H record) who lost only five games in a straight sets win over Horacio Zeballos.<\/strong><\/p>\nPhoto: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak continued his good run on Parisian clay as he defeated Albert Ramos-Vinolas 7-6 (5), 6-1, 6-3 to reach the last 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":89503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[133,93,101011211,101011740,101012745],"class_list":["post-89506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-defending-champion","tag-fourth-round","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam","tag-roland-garros-2017-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89506","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=89506"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89878,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89506\/revisions\/89878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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