{"id":89609,"date":"2017-06-07T13:55:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=89609"},"modified":"2017-06-24T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T10:23:53","slug":"novaks-french-open-run-ends-at-hands-of-dominic-thiem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novaks-french-open-run-ends-at-hands-of-dominic-thiem\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak’s French Open run ends at hands of Dominic Thiem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Novak’s run of 11 straight wins at Roland Garros<\/a> was ended by Dominic Thiem in the quarter-final of the French Open after a 6-7 (5), 3-6, 0-6 defeat to the sixth seed on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 23-year-old next generation star recovered from a 2-4 deficit in the first set, and saved two set points on serve at 4-5, 15\/40. In a tense tie-break, the Austrian held his nerve and clinched the 73-minute opener when the defending champion committed an unforced error.<\/p>\n

Thiem maintained his momentum by converting his break point opportunity in the second game of the second set. From 5-3 lead, he won seven straight games and sealed his first victory over Novak in their six career meetings.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the 30-year-old Serbian will drop outside of the Top 2 in the ATP Rankings for the first time since July 2011.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s hard to comment on the third set, nothing was going my way. It was a pretty bad set. All in all, the match was decided in the first set I think. I tried, I lost that crucial break at the beginning of the second and he started serving better,”<\/strong> said Djokovic. “He deserved to win. He was definitely the better player today. I guess he made it difficult. He has a heavy spin and he can play very quick. He has an all-round game. You can easily lose the rhythm, especially from the backhand corner. In the second part of the match, I was unable to hit the ball well and I made many unforced errors. He was getting better as the match progressed.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Match statistics<\/u>: aces (2-2), double faults (3-3), winners (18-38), unforced errors (35-28) total points won (81-105).<\/p>\n

Novak\u2019s next tournament is Wimbledon<\/a>, the third Major event of the season (July 03-July 16).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 12-time Grand Slam titlist has won The Championships trophy three times. Last year, he fell to Sam Querrey in the third round (6-7, 1-6, 6-3, 6-7).
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Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Austrian sixth seed beat the defending champion in straight sets 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-0 in two hours and 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":89595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011211,101011740,1161,101012745],"class_list":["post-89609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam","tag-quarterfinals","tag-roland-garros-2017-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89609","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=89609"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89867,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89609\/revisions\/89867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}