{"id":125958,"date":"2019-10-07T07:10:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T05:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=125958"},"modified":"2019-10-09T08:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:41:40","slug":"rolex-shanghai-masters-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/uncategorized-en\/rolex-shanghai-masters-draw-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolex Shanghai Masters draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.shanghairolexmasters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 Rolex Shanghai Masters<\/a> draw ceremony has been held on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP Tour Masters 1000 tournament will be played at Qi Zhong Tennis Center from October 6-13.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty six players are taking part. Eight seeds (1-8) got BYE in the first round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak, who won the event on four occasions (2012, 2013, 2015, 2018), is a top seed. He will begin his title defence and quest for 34th Masters trophy in the second round against Canadian Denis Shapovalov (ATP #36, 2-0 H2H).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic\u2019s possible rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> John Isner (USA, 16), Lucas Pouille (FRA)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 6), Gael Monfils (FRA, 9)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Daniil Medvedev (RUS. 3), Karen Khachanov (RUS, 7), Fabio Fognini (ITA, 10)<br \/>\n<strong>Finals:<\/strong> Roger Federer (SUI, 2), Dominic Thiem (AUT, 4), Alexander Zverev (GER, 5), Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 8)<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Novak beat Borna Coric 6-3, 6-4 in the final to claim a record fourth title.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak won the event on four occasions (2012, 2013, 2015, 2018). The top seed begins his title defence and quest for 34th Masters title in the second round against Denis Shapovalov (CAN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":125952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[101012177,118,101011267,101013094],"class_list":["post-125958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","category-uncategorized-en","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-draw","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rolex-shanghai-masters-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125958","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=125958"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126235,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125958\/revisions\/126235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}