{"id":126723,"date":"2019-10-25T20:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T18:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=126723"},"modified":"2019-10-29T19:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:12:59","slug":"rolex-paris-masters-draw-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rolex-paris-masters-draw-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolex Paris Masters draw announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw has been made for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolexparismasters.com\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth and final ATP Masters 1000 event of the season is taking place in Paris from October 28 to November 3. Sixteen seeds (1-16) get BYE in the first round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four-time former champion Novak Djokovic is no.1 seed and will open his quest for a fifth title at the Palais Omnisports in Bercy in the second round against Corentin Moutet (FRA, LL).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s possible rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> Diego Schwartzman (ARG, 14), Kyle Edmund (GBR)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 7), Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 9)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 4), Dominic Thiem (AUT, 5), David Goffin (BEL, 12), John Isner (USA, 15), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)<br \/>\n<strong>Finals:<\/strong> Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2), Alexander Zverev (GER, 6), Karen Khachanov (RUS, 8), Fabio Fognini (ITA, 11)<\/p>\n<p>It will be Novak\u2019s 14th appearance at the Paris Masters. The 32-year-old Serbian star won the tournament in 2009, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Last year he finished runner-up to Karen Khachanov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak is no.1 seed and will open his quest for a fifth title in Bercy in the second round against Corentin Moutet (FRA, LL). It will be his 14th appearance at the Paris Masters. Last year he finished runner-up to Karen Khachanov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":126721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,118,101011267,101012141,101013019],"class_list":["post-126723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-draw","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-paris","tag-rolex-paris-masters-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126723","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=126723"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126806,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126723\/revisions\/126806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}