{"id":28516,"date":"2016-08-30T06:13:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T06:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=28516"},"modified":"2016-08-30T06:13:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T06:13:42","slug":"us-open-djokovic-nadal-ease-past-into-second-round-isner-stretched-to-five-sets-by-teenager-tiafoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=28516","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Djokovic, Nadal move into second round; Isner stretched to five sets by teenager Tiafoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-28515\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Novak-Djokovic-US-Open.jpg\" alt=\"Novak Djokovic US Open\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Novak-Djokovic-US-Open.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Novak-Djokovic-US-Open-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>New York:<\/strong> Putting aside concerns, if any, about his wrist injury, Novak Djokovic beat Pole Jerzy Janowicz, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 in the first round of US Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium, here on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Djokovic improved his Flushing Meadows record 58-9, and has put himself on track to maintaining an impressive streak at the US Open in which he has reached the final four or better every year since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rafael Nadal, the two-time US Open champion, too, remained undefeated against Uzbekistan&rsquo;s Denis Istomin, winning comfortably in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2, to advance to the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth-seeded Milos Raonic too cruised into the second round with a straight-sets victory Dustin Brown. Raonic defeated Brown, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4, in one hour, 43 minutes. No. 10 Gael Monfils got the better of Gilles Muller 6-4, 6-2, 7-6, while ninth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga recorded straight sets 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win over Guido Andreozzi to get his 2016 US Open campaign underway. <\/p>\n<p>However, it was a thrilling five-setter between No. 26 seed Jack Sock and 18-year-old Taylor Fritz in which Sock beat Fritz, 7-6, 7-5, 3-6, 1-6, 6-4, in Louis Armstrong Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, veteran John Isner was stretched to five sets by teenager Frances Tiafoe at the new Grandstand but managed to hold off the challenge, turning back Tiafoe 3-6, 4-6, 7-6, 6-2, 7-6 in a nearly three and half hour duel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-28515\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Novak-Djokovic-US-Open.jpg\" alt=\"Novak Djokovic US Open\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Novak-Djokovic-US-Open.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Novak-Djokovic-US-Open-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>New York:<\/strong> Putting aside concerns, if any, about his wrist injury, Novak Djokovic beat Pole Jerzy Janowicz, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 in the first round of US Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium, here on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Djokovic improved his Flushing Meadows record 58-9, and has put himself on track to maintaining an impressive streak at the US Open in which he has reached the final four or better every year since 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10399,466,1820,761,17655,17656,4674],"class_list":["post-28516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis-tennis","tag-arthur-ashe-stadium","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-john-isner","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-pole-jerzy-janowicz","tag-rafeal-nadal","tag-us-open"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US Open: Djokovic, Nadal move into second round; 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