{"id":476220,"date":"2024-01-17T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T14:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476220"},"modified":"2024-01-17T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T14:15:11","slug":"djokovic-eliminates-popyrin-to-reach-australian-open-3rd-round","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-eliminates-popyrin-to-reach-australian-open-3rd-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic eliminates Popyrin to reach Australian Open 3rd round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic, world number 1 and reigning Australian Open champion, won against world number 43, Alexei Popyrin from Australia, 3-1 sets and advanced to the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> round of the Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s job done for Novak Djokovic \u2705<\/p>\n<p>The defending champion is through after a battle against Alexei Popyrin \ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n<p>Tomas Martin Etcheverry lies ahead \ud83d\udd1c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BBCTennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qy5D6iBPhA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qy5D6iBPhA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1747605203489026262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set 6-3 as a single break point was enough for him to triumph in the opening set. However, with the home crowd&#8217;s support, Popyrin surprised the world number 1 and won the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set after converting 2 break opportunities from 3 and allowing his Serbian opponent to break him only once.<\/p>\n<p>In the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, we saw no break, and things could become even more interesting if Alexei had won the tiebreak, but Nole didn\u2019t allow that and beat him 7-4 points to take the lead in the match again.<\/p>\n<p>In the 4<sup>th<\/sup> set, Djokovic converted 1 break and won it 6-3 he also closed the match again and won the clash after losing 1 set.<\/p>\n<p>Nole will play against the Argentinian world number 32 Tomas Martin Etcheverry in the next round.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Novak Djokovic after beating Popyrin at Australian Open<\/p>\n<p>Jim Courier: \u201cDo you feel like this year you can find that extra gear, maybe better health? We see you sniffling a bit. What\u2019s it gonna take for you to hit that next level to get you to the finish line?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Novak: \u201cI\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CBdPyvS32Q\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CBdPyvS32Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1747606857227940091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic, world number 1 and reigning Australian Open champion, won against world number 43, Alexei Popyrin from Australia, 3-1 sets and advanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":476221,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[5443,16740,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[19293,2469,17855,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Nole lost a set again but triumphed 3-1 sets despite that.","video":[]},"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\/476220"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476224,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476220\/revisions\/476224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476220"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476220"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}