{"id":17146,"date":"2021-09-03T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T05:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=145370"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T05:26:29","slug":"us-open-novak-djokovic-moves-to-the-third-round-after-victory-over-tallon-griekspoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/us-open-novak-djokovic-moves-to-the-third-round-after-victory-over-tallon-griekspoor\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Novak Djokovic moves to the third round after victory over Tallon Griekspoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">World number 1 Novak Djokovic has now moved closer to complete the Grand Slam dream after his dominating display to dismiss the Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor in the second round of the US Open on Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian crushed past Griekspoor to take the game by 6-2,6-3,6-2 in his favour to advance to the next round to face the Japanese international Kei Nishikori in the third round of the US Open. Nishikori is well remembered for his great run in the 2014 US open finishing as a runner up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This man is going to be TOUGH to beat. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZVFQbnyVQm\">pic.twitter.com\/ZVFQbnyVQm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1433594639920078855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 34-year-old is set on chasing history as he is few wins away from grabbing on to the fourth US Open title of his tennis career. The 21st Grand Slam will put Djokovic above the likes of the Swiss superstar Roger Federer and the mighty Spaniard Rafael Nadal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Top-seeded Djokovic is quite clearly a huge favourite to win the US Open as he is yet to lose a Grand Slam match in 2021. Although the tennis ace ended his Tokyo Olympic campaign earlier than expected, he is still on the hunt to complete the calendar-year Grand Slam and is looking to become the first player to do so since 1969 that would make him join the legendary Rod Laver if he manages to lift the title at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m as motivated as ever to do well,\u201d said Djokovic reported by AFP<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Novak Djokovic has towered over the tennis world in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Will he leave New York with the greatest tennis achievement of the modern era? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#USOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DjokerNole?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DjokerNole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ndaQAOHMVr\">pic.twitter.com\/ndaQAOHMVr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1432635773933654019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic moves closed to winning his fourth US Open title after he beat Tallon Griekspoor in the second round to advance further In the tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":37892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1421,203,202,335,2606],"class_list":["post-17146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-tennis","tag-us-open","tag-us-open-2021"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}