{"id":8803,"date":"2012-03-11T15:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/tennis-djokovic-breezes-through-at-indian-wells\/"},"modified":"2012-03-11T15:05:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T13:05:44","slug":"tennis-djokovic-breezes-through-at-indian-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tennis-djokovic-breezes-through-at-indian-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Djokovic breezes through at Indian Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">INDIAN WELLS, California, March 10<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; World<br \/>\nnumber one Novak Djokovic eased into the third round of the<br \/>\nIndian Wells ATP tournament with a commanding 6-3 6-2 victory<br \/>\nover Kazakhstan qualifier Andrey Golubev on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Serb, champion here in 2008 and last year,<br \/>\nbroke his opponent&#8217;s serve twice in each set to triumph in one<br \/>\nhour 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a good start,&#8221; Djokovic said in a courtside<br \/>\ninterview after sealing the win with a powerful first serve that<br \/>\nforced a wild backhand error by his 145th-ranked opponent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t play a beautiful match and there were a lot of<br \/>\nunforced errors but look, it&#8217;s the opening match of the<br \/>\ntournament for me and I am getting used to the conditions and<br \/>\nthe court.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully the next match will be better,&#8221; added the Serb,<br \/>\nwho won his fifth grand slam crown at the Australian Open in<br \/>\nJanuary.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, who beat Spaniard Rafa Nadal in last year&#8217;s final,<br \/>\nwill next face South African Kevin Anderson, who benefited from<br \/>\na walkover when Germany&#8217;s Philipp Kohlschreiber withdrew due to<br \/>\nan unspecified illness.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>British world number four Andy Murray, runner-up at Indian<br \/>\nWells in 2009, was scheduled to play his second-round match<br \/>\nagainst Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez later on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes INDIAN WELLS, California, March 10 (Reuters) &#8211; World number one Novak Djokovic eased into the third round of the Indian Wells ATP tournament with a commanding 6-3 6-2 victory over Kazakhstan qualifier Andrey Golubev on Saturday. The top-seeded Serb, champion here in 2008 and last year, broke his opponent&#8217;s serve twice in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}