{"id":458247,"date":"2026-05-24T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/458247\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:42:09","slug":"djokovic-solves-riddle-against-mpetshi-perricard-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/458247\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic solves riddle against Mpetshi Perricard &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For almost the first two hours against Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Sunday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/9801-n.djokovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> bent, but didn&#8217;t break.<\/p>\n<p>Literally. <\/p>\n<p>Down a set against the big-serving Frenchman, Djokovic was increasingly frustrated. One of the best returners of serve, if not the best, in tennis history, just couldn&#8217;t find the answers. <\/p>\n<p>After not having a break point against Mpetshi Perricard&#8217;s massive delivery in the opening set &#8211; with a break of serve by the home favorite at 5-5 helping him become the first French player to win a set against Djokovic in Paris in 14 years &#8211; Djokovic was 0-for-9 after nearly 12 completed games in the second set. <\/p>\n<p>Emphasis on the nearly. After Mpetshi Perricard saved three set points in the final game with aces, he couldn&#8217;t see off a fourth. Djokovic returned the serve on that key point, and won a 17-shot rally to, finally, equal the scoreboard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For almost the first two hours against Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Sunday night, Novak Djokovic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-458247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}