Novak Djokovic<\/a> began his quest to become the oldest grand slam champion \u2013 man or woman \u2013 in the Open Era with a slightly shaky first-round victory over Learner Tien, a player roughly half his age.\n <\/p>\n\n Having not played since his Wimbledon semifinal loss to Jannik Sinner six weeks earlier, the Serbian overcame fatigue and an 82-minute second set to beat the American 6-1, 7-6 (3), 6-2.\n <\/p>\n
\n The world No. 7 continued his slightly shaky run into the second round, where he dropped the first set to another American, Zachary Svajda, before retaking control and defeating the qualifier 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.\n <\/p>\n
\n Next for Djokovic was a seventh win in seven matches against Cameron Norrie, who led for a short time when he broke the Serbian in the third set. But, despite apparent issues with his lower back, Djokovic stormed back to win 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-3.\n <\/p>\n
\n The 24-time grand slam singles champion was finally starting to show his quality, and he breezed past fourth-round opponent Jan-Lennard Struff with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 victory in less than two hours.\n <\/p>\n
\n That set up Djokovic\u2019s first serious test of the tournament, a quarterfinal against world No. 4 Taylor Fritz. But it was one the Serbian passed with flying colors, fending off multiple break points and looking a different player entirely from the one who started the tournament.\n <\/p>\n
\n His 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 win was his 11th victory in 11 matches against the American.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic began his quest to become the oldest grand slam champion \u2013 man or woman \u2013 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-135395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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