{"id":111043,"date":"2018-10-26T20:18:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=111043"},"modified":"2018-10-30T19:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:35:09","slug":"rolex-paris-masters-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rolex-paris-masters-draw-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolex Paris Masters draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw has been made for the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolexparismasters.com\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth and final ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament of the season is taking place in Paris from October 29 to November 4.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen seeds (1-16) get BYE in the first round. <strong>Four-time former titlist Novak Djokovic is no.2 seed and will open his quest for a fifth crown at the Palais Omnisports in Bercy in the second round against Portuguese qualifier Joao Sousa (H2H 5-0) who beat Marco Cecchinato (ITA) in straight sets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s possible opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 14)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Marin Cilic (CRO, 5), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 9)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Roger Federer (SUI, 3), Kevin Anderson (RSA, 7), Kei Nishikori (JPN, 10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finals:<\/strong> Rafael Nadal (ESP, 1), Alexander Zverev (GER, 4), Dominic Thiem (AUT, 6), John Isner (USA, 8)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It will be Novak\u2019s 13th appearance at the Paris Masters. The 31-year-old Belgrade native won the event in 2009, 2013, 2014 and 2015.<\/strong> He missed it last year due to elbow injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw has been made for the 2018 Rolex Paris Masters on Friday. Novak is no.2 seed and will open his quest for a fifth title in Bercy in the second round against Joao Sousa (POR, Q).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":111039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,118,101012251,101011202,101012260,101013019],"class_list":["post-111043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-draw","tag-france-en","tag-masters-en","tag-paris-en","tag-rolex-paris-masters-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111043","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=111043"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111200,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111043\/revisions\/111200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}