BEIJING \u2014 Novak Djokovic rallied to beat Bu Yunchaokete and maintain his flawless record at the China Open despite again needing a medical timeout on Friday.<\/p>\n
The sixth-ranked Djokovic won 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals and extend his record to 31-0 at the Beijing tournament, which he has won six times, the last in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to play very well. I had to serve well in the right moments,\u201d Djokovic said. \u201cHe was so solid. I struggled to really find holes in his game and was hitting his spots really well with his serve.<\/p>\n
\u201cCredit to him for playing well. The atmosphere was amazing. Packed stadium again for three hours \u2014 what a match to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Djokovic squandered a break advantage in the second set and also needed treatment on court. It appeared to be a problem around his rib area, similar to where he had been treated during a medical timeout during his first-round match on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Djokovic showed little ill effects afterwards, dominating the tiebreaker and then breaking Bu\u2019s serve twice to storm into a 4-0 lead in the third set.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old Djokovic sealed the win on the second of three match points with a crosscourt backhand.<\/p>\n
He will play either top-seeded Alexander Zverev or China\u2019s Juncheng Shang in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
In a first-round match, sixth-seeded Daniil Medvedev eased past Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta 6-4, 6-2 and will next face Jan-Lennard Struff.<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s tournament, second-seeded Aryna Sabalenka took just 62 minutes to defeat Renata Zarazua 6-1, 6-3. It was Sabalenka\u2019s first match since losing the U.S. Open final to Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n
In contrast, it took Naomi Osaka exactly double that time to see off Maria Timofeeva, with the No. 12 seed eventually prevailing 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING \u2014 Novak Djokovic rallied to beat Bu Yunchaokete and maintain his flawless record at the China Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-918381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}