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He may be carrying a little more around the middle than in his Roland Garros pomp, but the star appeal of Agassi was undeniable on Wednesday as his new charge Djokovic romped to a second-round win.<\/p>\n
Almost as many cameras were trained on the U.S. tennis star as were trained on Djokovic throughout the latter’s dismantling of Portugal’s Sousa.<\/p>\n
Video –<\/span> Djokovic: I found my zone, which is encouraging<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 02:31<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Reigning champion Djokovic teamed up with 1999 champion Agassi in a dream-team player-coach combination just before the start of the tournament.<\/p>\n Already the signs were good on Court Suzanne Lenglen. There was a spring in the step of the world number two that had seemed missing in recent months.<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic of Serbia in discussion with coach Andre Agassi during practice on day one of the 2017 French Open at Roland GarrosReuters<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “Well, that’s what these ‘Super-coaches’ give you,” former world number one and triple French champion Mats Wilander told Reuters.<\/p>\n “They help you with all the little things. Obviously, they know what it is like, they know what you need to be a champion.”<\/p>\n Video –<\/span> Highlights: Djokovic breezes past Sousa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 03:44<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Djokovic looked every bit a champion as he controlled his opponent throughout, with Agassi closely monitoring from courtside, a look of concern occasionally clouding his mien.<\/p>\n But Agassi needn’t have worried. Having raced through the first set in a little over half an hour, second seed Djokovic established his rhythm and then just pulled away.<\/p>\n Video –<\/span> Djokovic celebrates victory with ball kids in amusing fashion<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 02:13<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n He next meets Argentine Diego Schwartzman in the third round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\n\nNovak Djokovic defeated Joao Sousa in straight sets 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 on Wednesday to progress to Round Three of the French Open as new coach Andre Agassi stole the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[71,59,70],"class_list":["post-342443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-eurosport","tag-media","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}