{"id":485818,"date":"2024-07-31T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485818"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:37:37","slug":"novak-djokovic-continues-olympic-gold-chase-with-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/novak-djokovic-continues-olympic-gold-chase-with-straight-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic continues Olympic gold chase with straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic continues his quest for a first Olympic gold medal on Wednesday at the Paris Olympics, defeating Germany\u2019s Dominik Koepfer 7-5, 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star, fresh off a straight-sets victory over rival Rafael Nadal in the second round, showcased his dominance once again. Djokovic took one hour and 37 minutes to secure his win against Koepfer, overcoming a break deficit in the first set and dominating in gruelling baseline rallies to take the lead. In the second set, the 37-year-old won an impressive 95 percent (19\/20) of his first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic sealed his victory on the first match point with a punched volley, celebrating with a roar and raising his arms to the sky in front of a crowd filled with Serbian supporters and flags at Court Philippe Chatrier.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Novak Djokovic has defeated Koepfer by a score of 7-5 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Focused. Determined. Eyes on the gold. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/167GmIbRgv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/167GmIbRgv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Danny \ud83d\udc0a (@DjokovicFan_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokovicFan_\/status\/1818614263231266861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Next, Djokovic will face eighth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, who defeated Argentine Sebastian Baez 7-5, 6-1. Djokovic holds an 11-2 advantage in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series, having won their past 10 encounters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RN5uDhjSzNs?si=zDiYh6ict37FpSEX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic continues his quest for a first Olympic gold medal on Wednesday at the Paris Olympics, defeating Germany\u2019s Dominik Koepfer 7-5, 6-3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485819,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,16740],"news_category":[16714,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18357,17855],"acf":{"announce":"The Serbian needed a little over one and a half hours to reach Paris 1\/4-finals","video":["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\/485818"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485821,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485818\/revisions\/485821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485818"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485818"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}