Young French player Luca Van Assche upset tennis veteran Stan Wawrinka with 2:1 (1:6,7:6,6:4) and set
\nup his meeting with Novak \u0110okovi\u0107.
\nThe match was played at the Centre Court, in front of full stands, and, despite putting up a good fight, the
\nexperienced Swiss player failed to win to meet the world No. 1 in the second round.
\n\u201cI feel incredible after my win over Wawrinka. Wawrinka is an experienced tennis player, with a lot of
\nmatches and titles under his belt. I\u2019m happy to be able to win this very long match. He was great in the
\nfirst set but I had a feeling I could turn things around. I was focused in the second and the third set.
\nAnyhow, it was a privilege to play against Wawrinka\u201d, Luca Van Assche explained.
\nThe next match is bound to be much more difficult for the French youngster who will be playing against
\nNovak \u0110okovi\u0107 for the first time.
\n"Novak is a true champion. Not only in tennis but in sports in general. It will be an incredible match. I
\nknow I\u2018ll have to give my all to win. I grew up watching Novak\u2019s matches. It\u2019s a privilege to play against
\nhim\u201d.
\nHe also praised the organisers of the Srpska Open tournament and added:
\n\u201cI\u2019m familiar with everything; I played a challenger tournament here last year. Everything is enjoyable here
\nand I feel good in Banjaluka\u201d.
\nThe young French player is a math student but studying is not really on his mind at the moment.
\n\u201cI\u2019m not thinking about my studies now. I\u2019ll focus on my match with \u0110okovi\u0107.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Young French player Luca Van Assche upset tennis veteran Stan Wawrinka with 2:1 (1:6,7:6,6:4) and set up his meeting with Novak \u0110okovi\u0107. The match was played at the Centre Court, in front of full stands, and, despite putting up a good fight, the experienced Swiss player failed to win to meet the world No. 1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}