{"id":22169,"date":"2025-08-27T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/novak-jjokovic-drops-the-first-set-but-opens-the-third-round\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:25:43","slug":"novak-jjokovic-drops-the-first-set-but-opens-the-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/novak-jjokovic-drops-the-first-set-but-opens-the-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Jjokovic drops the first set, but opens the third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Novak Jjokovic overcame a slow start to beat Zachary Svajda 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 on Wednesday, remaining unbeaten in his first two rounds of the US Open career.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, who played his first opening match of a day session at Arthur Ashe Stadium since 2014, improved to 54-45 in the majors after losing the opening set.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic appeared to be physically labour early in the match. However, after falling 3-1 in the third set, he finally began to look like a player who won a men&#8217;s record 24 grand slam title, including the four of New York.<\/p>\n<p>No. 7 seed Djokovic opened a 3-0 lead in four sets in the next eight matches against American qualifiers, eventually closing just 26 minutes after the first set took an hour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t very happy with tennis in the first part of the match,&#8221; Djokovic said, giving credit to an opponent who was clearly suffering from injuries in the second half of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Entering Wednesday, Svajda won 17 of his last 19 matches at all levels, including qualifying, calling trainers multiple times during the switch, appearing to suffer from convulsions.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline float-r inline-track\">\n<h2 class=\"img-title\">(7) Djokovic def. Svayd: 6-7, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 Djokovic: 15-0 vs. Americans Open. Best record by a man at this event during the open era<br \/>\u2022 191st career match victory in the hard court major. Roger Federer is tied up second by the player behind Serena Williams (200)<br \/>\u2022Major career victory for the 54th time after losing the opening set. 10 More than any other people in the open era<br \/>\u2022The 75th major third round appearance. Since the start of the 1968 era, every man has broken his tie with Roger Federer.<br \/>\u2022SVADJA: 0-5 for career vs. ATP top 25 rank players. I was about to reach the third round of majors for the first time in my career.<\/p>\n<p><i>-ESPN Research<\/i><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Praise for him staying on the court,&#8221; Djokovic said.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic&#8217;s 191st career match was a win in the hard court majors, tied Roger Federer, the second-longest after Serena Williams&#8217; 200.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, 38, reached the third round in all 19 appearances in New York, almost ties Federer into the open era.<\/p>\n<p>He then faces either Cameron Nolly, where Djokovic is 6-0, or Francisco Kamena, whom he doesn&#8217;t play.<\/p>\n<p>No in the results of the second round of other men&#8217;s singles. Giri Lehecca of 20 beat Thomas Martin Etcherlie 3-6, 6-0, 6-2, 6-4. And then, Czech 21st seed Thomas Machuk has passed the Brazilian 19-year-old feeling, Joa Fonseca 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p><em>ESPN research and Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Novak Jjokovic overcame a slow start to beat Zachary Svajda 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 on Wednesday, remaining unbeaten in his first two rounds of the US Open career. Djokovic, who played his first opening match of a day session at Arthur Ashe Stadium since 2014, improved to 54-45 in the majors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1139,324,261,68,150,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-22169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-drops","9":"tag-jjokovic","10":"tag-novak","11":"tag-opens","12":"tag-set","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}