{"id":966,"date":"2010-01-23T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T08:05:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:41:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:41:59","slug":"novak-storms-into-the-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-storms-into-the-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak storms into the round of 16!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"arhiva\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/409.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> {nl}{nl}Third-seeded Novak Djokovic powered into the fourth round of Australian Open with a 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 victory over world no.103 Denis Istomin in just 97 minutes on Hisense Arena on Saturday.{nl}{nl}Djokovic started strongly, breaking Istomin\u2019s service twice in the second and fourth game. He took the first set 6-1 in very convincing fashion.{nl}{nl}The second set started in much the same way as the first. Novak made a break in the opening game and held his serve to consolidate his break. The Serb broke his opponent&#8217;s serve to love in the third game and soon had a 4-0 lead. Istomin won only one game again. Djokovic closed the set 6-1 breaking world no.103 for the third time.{nl}{nl}Nole showed no mercy in this match. With two breaks of service and a hold to 15 he was 5-0 up in the third set moving to within a game of sealing the match in straight sets. The 22-year-old was broken serving for the match at 5-1, but broke back in the next game to win the set and match 6-2.{nl}{nl}Statistics: aces (3:3), double faults (7:0), winners (29:11), unforced errors (25:31).{nl}{nl}Djokovic capitalised on 9 of his 14 chances for break, while Istomin converted 2 of his 9 break points.{nl}{nl}<strong>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think my opponent played on the level that he could. He was helping me out with a lot of unforced errors, and basically we didn&#8217;t have a lot of long rallies&#8221;, said Nole after the match.{nl}{nl}&#8221;I just needed to be consistent and try to maintain the focus and get it over with as soon as possible. So that&#8217;s what I did.&#8221;<\/strong>{nl}{nl}Novak will play against world no.86 Poland\u2019s Lucasz Kubot for a place in the quartefinals. {nl}{nl}Kubot reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time after no.20 seed Russian Mikhail Youzhny withdrew with a wrist injury. Djokovic and Kubot met last year in the final of Serbia Open tournament. Nole won the match 6-3 7-6(0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third-seeded Novak Djokovic powered into the fourth round of Australian Open with a 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 victory over world no.103 Denis Istomin in just 97 minutes on Hisense Arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012180],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2010-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26938,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/26938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}