{"id":1117,"date":"2010-10-30T17:31:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:52:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:52:59","slug":"nole-vs-gulbis-in-basel-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-vs-gulbis-in-basel-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole vs Gulbis in Basel R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/688.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photo: Peter Hauck<\/font>{nl}{nl}The draw has been made for Swiss Indoors Basel tournament. The ATP World Tour 500 event starts on Monday November 1, and will be played for \u20ac 1,225,000 prize money.{nl}{nl}12 months ago Nole made his debut in Basel and lifted the winner\u2019s trophy. The world no. 3 is eager to defend his title and win his 3rd tournament of 2010. He defeated three-time defending champion Roger Federer in his hometown 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 in the finals last year.{nl}{nl}The event is celebrating its 40th jubilee with an impressive line-up, including four men from the world\u2019s top ten: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Tomas Berdych and Andy Roddick.{nl}{nl}Djokovic is second-seeded, like last year.  He will begin his title defence campaign against world no.24 Latvian Ernests Gulbis. The two players have met three times, Nole leads 2-1.{nl}{nl}Novak could play against either Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) or Daniel Brands (GER) in the second round. {nl}{nl}Djokovic\u2019s possible rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:{nl}{nl}<u>Quarterfinals:<\/u> John Isner (USA,8), Marcos Baghdatis (CYP){nl}<u>Semifinals:<\/u> Tomas Berdych (CZE,3), Ivan Ljubicic (CRO,7), Richard Gasquet (FRA), Viktor Troicki (SRB){nl}{nl}Top seed Roger Federer (SUI) is in the other half of the draw, as well as Andy Roddick (USA,4), Marin Cilic (CRO,6)&#8230;{nl}{nl}The winner of the event will earn \u20ac291,700 and 500 ATP points.{nl}{nl}Good luck Nole!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 months ago Nole made his debut in Basel and lifted the winner\u2019s trophy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012032],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-basel-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","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=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28197,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/28197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}