Novak Djokovic continued his excellent file at Wimbledon on Friday when he moved previous Stan Wawrinka 6-3, 6-1, 7-6 (5) to achieve the final 16 in London.

The second seed dictated play within the match. He broke his opponent’s serve as soon as within the first set and thrice within the second, and went on to win the third set tie-break.

“I’ve to say that it’s wonderful what Stan is doing. Nonetheless his age, after a number of surgical procedures. We’re two outdated guys combating with the younger weapons, I believe it’s necessary to acknowledge that,” Djokovic mentioned in his on-court interview. “It’s wonderful. It’s inspiring. Like Andy Murray, he was compelled to drop within the rankings within the final couple of years and is attempting to construct his rating. We’ve had some wonderful battles on the most important courts within the sport. I respect Stan quite a bit as a participant. He’s a particularly good man. So I want him all the very best for the for the remainder of the season.”

“He was two factors away from extending this match to a different day. Coming into the courtroom, we knew that it was going to be actually tight to complete the match immediately,” Novak added. “One in all us needed to win in straight units and it appeared very, excellent for me the primary two units. Then he raised his stage, I dropped mine a bit bit. And yeah, the group acquired concerned. It was an excellent ambiance. And hopefully you guys loved it.”

Match statistics: aces (11-6), double faults (1-0), winners (38-12), unforced errors (26-19), whole factors received (96-70).

Together with his two-hour, six-minute win, Novak set a fourth-round conflict in opposition to seventeenth seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland (H2H file 5-0), who defeated 14th seed Lorenzo Musetti 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-4 earlier within the day.

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