{"id":119650,"date":"2019-05-04T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T09:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=119650"},"modified":"2019-05-06T20:26:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:26:17","slug":"mutua-madrid-open-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/mutua-madrid-open-draw-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutua Madrid Open draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After his quarter-final appearance at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, Novak Djokovic continues his clay court season at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madrid-open.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mutua Madrid Open<\/a>, an ATP Masters 1000 event, taking place from May 5 to May 12.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian star is no.1 seed and will open his campaign at La Caja M\u00e1gica in the second round against qualifier Taylor Fritz (ATP #57, H2H 1-0). The American eliminated Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) in straight sets 7-6, 7-6.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> Marco Cecchinato (ITA, 16), Jeremy Chardy (FRA), Diego Schwartzman (ARG)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 7), Marin Cilic (CRO, 9)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Roger Federer (SUI, 4), Dominic Thiem (AUT, 5), Fabio Fognini (ITA, 10)<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2), Alexander Zverev (GER, 3), Kei Nishikori (JPN, 6), Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 8)&#8230; are in the bottom half of the draw and Novak can\u2019t meet them before the <strong>final<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic lifted the trophy twice in the capital of Spain, in 2011 and 2016. Last year he lost to Kyle Edmund in Madrid second round (3-6, 6-2, 3-6).<\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole May desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Calendar_May2019.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak continues his clay court season at the ATP Masters 1000 event, taking place from May 5 to May 12 in Madrid. The Serbian star is no.1 seed and will open his campaign at La Caja M\u00e1gica against American qualifier Taylor Fritz (ATP #57, H2H 1-0) in R2 on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":119578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,118,101012203,101011267,101013053,101011792],"class_list":["post-119650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-draw","tag-madrid-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-mutua-madrid-open-2019-en","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119650","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=119650"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119783,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119650\/revisions\/119783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}