{"id":125376,"date":"2019-09-28T07:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T05:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=125376"},"modified":"2019-09-29T16:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T14:22:01","slug":"japan-open-draw-is-out-novak-vs-qualifier-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/japan-open-draw-is-out-novak-vs-qualifier-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Open draw is out, Novak vs Popyrin in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw has been made for the <a href=\"https:\/\/rakutenopen.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 Novak Djokovic is set to make his debut at the ATP 500 tennis tournament in Tokyo, Japan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The longest-running ATP Tour event in Asia is taking place at the Ariake Colosseum from September 30 to October 6.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Novak\u2019s first tournament since retiring with a shoulder injury at the US Open.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The top-seeded Serbian star will open campaign against 20-year-old Alexei Popyrin (AUS, Q).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic\u2019s possible rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second round:<\/strong> Jan-Lennard Struff (GER), Go Soeda (JPN, WC)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarterfinals:<\/strong> Lucas Pouille (FRA, 5), Hubert Hurkacz (POL)<br \/>\n<strong>Semifinals:<\/strong> David Goffin (BEL, 3), Marin Cilic (CRO, 6)<br \/>\n<strong>Finals:<\/strong> Borna Coric (CRO, 2), Benoit Paire (FRA, 4), Taylor Fritz (USA, 7), Alex de Minaur (AUS, 8)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can download Nole October desktop calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Calendar_October2019.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest-running ATP Tour event in Asia is taking place at the Ariake Colosseum from September 30 to October 6. Making his debut in Tokyo, the top-seeded Novak will open campaign against Alexei Popyrin (Q).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":125371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,604,118,101012210,101013088,101012361],"class_list":["post-125376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-debut","tag-draw","tag-japan-en","tag-rakuten-japan-open-tennis-championships-en","tag-tokyo-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125376","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=125376"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125457,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125376\/revisions\/125457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}