The victory additionally meant the Serb grew to become the primary man over the age of 30 to succeed in 150 Grand Slam singles wins.
Djokovic could make additional historical past nonetheless in Melbourne – win the title and he would declare a twenty fifth main, shifting him away from Australia’s Margaret Courtroom as the only chief of all-time Grand Slam singles titles.
The seventh seed, who has three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray in his teaching field, will face Czech twenty sixth seed Tomas Machac within the third spherical.
Norwegian sixth seed Casper Ruud grew to become the largest casualty within the males’s draw, dropping 6-2 3-6 6-1 6-4 to 19-year-old Czech Jakub Mensik.
World quantity 48 Mensik and Joao Fonseca, the 18-year-old Brazilian qualifier who surprised ninth seed Andrey Rublev on Tuesday, are the primary youngsters to beat top-10 opponents on the similar Grand Slam since Djokovic and Murray at Wimbledon in 2006.
In the meantime, German second seed Alexander Zverev claimed an assured 6-1 6-4 6-1 victory over Spain’s Pedro Martinez to arrange a third-round assembly with Britain’s Jacob Fearnley.