{"id":105885,"date":"2018-08-03T23:58:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T21:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=105885"},"modified":"2018-08-07T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:41:10","slug":"rogers-cup-draw-revealed-novak-vs-chung-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rogers-cup-draw-revealed-novak-vs-chung-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Cup draw revealed, Novak vs Basic in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw has been made for the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Toronto, the sixth Masters tournament of the year (August 06-12).<\/p>\n<p>After three weeks off, the Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic begins his North American summer hard court season in the largest city in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nole is no.9 seed and will open his campaign against world no.84 Mirza Basic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (LL). It will be their first career meeting.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>2nd round:<\/strong> Peter Polansky (CAN), Matthew Ebden (AUS)<br \/>\n<strong>3rd round:<\/strong> Dominic Thiem (AUT, 7), Damir Dzumhur (BIH)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Alexander Zverev (GER, 2), Jack Sock (USA, 13)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Kevin Anderson (RSA, 4), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 5), David Goffin (BEL, 10), Milos Raonic (CAN)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Nadal (ESP, 1), Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 3), Marin Cilic (CRO, 6), John Isner (USA, 8)&#8230; are in the <strong>other half of the draw<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Djokovic missed the event due to elbow injury.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Novak\u2019s 11th appearance at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerscup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogers Cup<\/a>. He is bidding to win the trophy for the fifth time and add it to his collection of 30 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crowns.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Belgrade native won the title on his 2007 debut and repeated the feat in 2011, 2012 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I have happy memories from my time on court and outside the court in Toronto and it\u2019s always a highlight on my calendar,&#8221;<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>&#8220;The tournament looks after us so well and the fans are always passionate about their tennis. After a dream run at Wimbledon, I\u2019m really motivated going into the hard-court season so I look forward to enjoying my time there.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the doubles competition, Novak will team up with Kevin Anderson (RSA) against Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, WC) in Round 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw has been made for the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Toronto, the sixth Masters tournament of the year (August 06-12). Nole is no.9 seed and will open his campaign against Mirza Basic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":105880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012285,118,101011202,101011261,101012577],"class_list":["post-105885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-canada-en","tag-draw","tag-masters-en","tag-rogers-cup-en","tag-toronto-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105885"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106035,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105885\/revisions\/106035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}