In so doing, Djokovic rubber-stamped his record 21st consecutive Roland-Garros third-round showing. On top of that, the 39-year-old is the first man ever to play 120 matches at a sole Grand Slam event, eclipsing Roger Federer\u2019s Wimbledon tally of 119.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m relieved. Obviously, it feels different when you win the match. It\u2019s a very important victory in difficult conditions for both players. It was very hot and I think Valentin deserves big credit for his performance today,” said Djokovic, shortly after converting his fourth match point.<\/p>\n
“It was a very tough match, a challenge right from the start. It\u2019s normal that things get tricky on court in these sort of conditions and atmosphere. I hope I don\u2019t have to play another French player again until the end of the tournament!<\/p>\n
“Experience helps a little, actually a lot. In the heat of the moment, you have to give everything you’ve got and stay focused on every point. But that’s easier said than done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In so doing, Djokovic rubber-stamped his record 21st consecutive Roland-Garros third-round showing. On top of that, the 39-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-463075","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\/463075","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=463075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}