{"id":439250,"date":"2023-07-06T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/djokovic-begins-wimbledon-journey-with-clean-win-after-rain-delay\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T08:23:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:23:27","slug":"djokovic-begins-wimbledon-journey-with-clean-win-after-rain-delay","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-begins-wimbledon-journey-with-clean-win-after-rain-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic begins Wimbledon journey with clean win after rain delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic began the defense of his title with a straight sets victory over Argentina&#8217;s Pedro Cachin 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (4) at the Centre Court.<\/p>\n<p>However, the match itself didn&#8217;t go smoothly as there was a hefty delay due to rain, which occurred between the 1st and 2nd set.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a little bit [of] a strange feeling but hopefully you guys liked it.&#8221; Djokovic said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was definitely frustrating for all the crowd waiting for us to come out on court. We both wanted to play but the conditions were not great and still slippery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once the roof was open it was a different story and after five or 10 minutes we were able to play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No Djok-ing about  <\/p>\n<p>No. 2 seed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DjokerNole<\/a> is safely through to the 2nd round with a straight sets win vs Cachin.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/33TCjNdxE2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/33TCjNdxE2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1675901855656816655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic will now face American Brandon Nakashima in the 2nd round in his quest for record-equalling 8th Wimbledon title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic began the defense of his title with a straight sets victory over Argentina&#8217;s Pedro Cachin 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (4) at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439251,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740,17072],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"video":[],"announce":"The Serb was in the driving seat all along"},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439250"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439250"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}