{"id":114984,"date":"2019-01-10T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T08:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=114984"},"modified":"2019-01-13T20:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T19:02:12","slug":"2019-australian-open-draw-revealed-nole-vs-qualifier-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/2019-australian-open-draw-revealed-nole-vs-qualifier-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Australian Open draw revealed, Nole vs Krueger in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019 Australian Open<\/a> official draw took place at Margaret Court Arena on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak, a record-equaling six-time AO titlist, is no.1 seed and will open campaign against American qualifier Mitchell Krueger (ATP #231) on Tuesday at 19:00 local time (09:00 CET).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>second round<\/strong>, Djokovic will play against the winner of the match between 2008 runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, WC) and Martin Klizan (SVK).<\/p>\n<p>The earliest seed he could face is no.25, Denis Shapovalov (CAN), in <strong>round three<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth round:<\/strong> Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 15), David Goffin (BEL, 21)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Kei Nishikori (JPN, 8), Fabio Fognini (ITA, 12)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Alexander Zverev (GER, 4), Dominic Thiem (AUT, 7), Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)<br \/>\n<strong>Final:<\/strong> Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2) Roger Federer (SUI, 3), Kevin Anderson (RSA, 5), Marin Cilic (CRO, 6), Karen Khachanov (RUS, 10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak has won six of his 14 Grand Slam titles in Melbourne (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, he suffered a 6-7 (4), 5-7, 6-7 (3) fourth-round defeat to Hyeon Chung of South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The year\u2019s first Grand Slam tournament starts on January 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 Australian Open draw took place at Margaret Court Arena on Thursday. Novak, a record six\u2013time AO titlist, is no.1 seed and will open campaign against American qualifier Mitchell Krueger (ATP #231)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":114980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012354,101013041,118,101010469,101012415],"class_list":["post-114984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australia-en","tag-australian-open-2019-en","tag-draw","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-melbourne-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114984","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114984"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115183,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114984\/revisions\/115183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}