{"id":122324,"date":"2019-06-28T12:14:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=122324"},"modified":"2019-06-28T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:33:16","slug":"wimbledon-2019-novak-to-open-title-defence-against-kohlschreiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/wimbledon-2019-novak-to-open-title-defence-against-kohlschreiber\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2019: Novak to open title defence against Kohlschreiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gentlemen\u2019s singles draw has been made for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a>, the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The third Grand Slam of the season, the only grass court Major event, will be held from July 1 to July 14, at the All England Lawn Tennis Club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>128 players will be playing for The Championships trophy and 2000 ATP points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In his 15th appearance at Wimbledon, Novak will open title defence campaign against world no.57 Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) on Monday at 13:00 local time \/ 14:00 CET. <\/strong>It will be their 13th career meeting (10-2 H2H).<\/p>\n<p>The top seed and four-time champion might face the winner of the clash between Denis Kudla (USA) and Malek Jaziri (TUN) in the <strong>second round<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third round:<\/strong> Dusan Lajovic (SRB, 32), Ernests Gulbis (LAT), Hubert Hurkacz (POL)<br \/>\n<strong>Fourth round:<\/strong> Gael Monfils (FRA, 16), Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 19), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 7), Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 11), David Goffin (BEL, 21), Kyle Edmund (GBR, 30)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Kevin Anderson (RSA, 4), Alexander Zverev (GER, 6), Stan Wawrinka (SUI, 22), Feliciano Lopez (ESP, WC)<br \/>\n<strong>Finals:<\/strong> Roger Federer (SUI, 2), Rafael Nadal (ESP, 3), Dominic Thiem (AUT, 5), Kei Nishikori (JPN, 8), John Isner (USA, 9)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nole won his fourth Championships Cup last year, beating Kevin Anderson in the final (6-2, 6-2, 7-6), adding the 2018 title to his wins in 2011, 2014 and 2015.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 is looking to win his third trophy in 2019 after triumphing at the Australian Open and the Mutua Madrid Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third Grand Slam of the season will be held from July 1-14, at the All England Lawn Tennis Club. In his 15th appearance at Wimbledon, Novak will open title defence campaign against world no.57 Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) in their 13th career meeting (10-2 H2H).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":122312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011546,118,101010469,101012193,101011449,101013072],"class_list":["post-122324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-defending-champion-en","tag-draw","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-london-en","tag-the-championships-en","tag-wimbledon-2019-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122324","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=122324"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122338,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122324\/revisions\/122338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}