{"id":1174,"date":"2011-01-14T01:05:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T12:03:14","slug":"australian-open-nole-vs-granollers-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/australian-open-nole-vs-granollers-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open: Nole vs Granollers in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/783.jpg> {nl}{nl}The first Grand Slam tournament in 2011 begins in Melbourne on Monday, January 17, and will be held till January 30.{nl}{nl}Nole lifted his first Grand Slam trophy at the Australian Open 2008, and hasn\u2019t lost before quarterfinals in the last three years.{nl}{nl}128 players will be fighting for two weeks for the title and 2000 ATP points. The winner will get 2 million euros. {nl}{nl}<b>The best Serbian player and the third seed of the tournament will start his bid for a second Grand Slam title against world no.42 Spaniard Marcel Granollers.<\/b> The two players have never met before.{nl}{nl}In the second round Djokovic will play against the winner of the match between Croats Ivo Karlovic and Ivan Dodig.{nl}{nl}Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:{nl}{nl}<u>3rd round:<\/u> Viktor Troicki (SRB,29), Nicolas Mahut (FRA){nl}<u>4th round:<\/u> Nicolas Almagro (ESP,14), Ivan Ljubicic (CRO,17), {nl}<u>Quarterfinals:<\/u> Tomas Berdych (CZE,6), Fernando Verdasco (ESP,9), Nikolay Davidenko (RUS,23), Janko Tipsarevic (SRB){nl}<u>Semifinals:<\/u> Roger Federer (SUI,2), Andy Roddick (USA,8), Gael Monfils (FRA,12), Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI,19){nl}{nl}Rafael Nadal (ESP,1), Robin Soderling (SWE,4), Andy Murray (GBR,5)&#8230; are in the top part of the draw.{nl}{nl}Roger Federer is a defending champion. The Swiss defeated Andy Murray in the finals in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6.{nl}{nl}<b>Good luck Nole!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best Serbian player and the third seed of the tournament will start his bid for a second Grand Slam title against world no.42 Spaniard Marcel Granollers. They have never met before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010220],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2011-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","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=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26966,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/26966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}