{"id":127740,"date":"2019-11-14T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T12:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=127740"},"modified":"2019-11-14T14:03:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:03:36","slug":"field-announced-for-2020-inaugural-atp-cup-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/field-announced-for-2020-inaugural-atp-cup-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Field announced for 2020 inaugural ATP Cup in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak will kick-off his 2020 season at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/24-countries-field-set-for-atp-cup-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inaugural ATP Cup<\/a>, to be held from 3-12 January, 2020, in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>24 countries are each assigned to one of six groups and three host cities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed Serbia, led by Novak Djokovic, will play at the Pat Rafter Arena in Brisbane in Group A with France, South Africa and Chile. Dusan Lajovic, Viktor Troicki, Nikola Cacic and Nikola Milojevic are also on the team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ATP Cup will feature nine members of the Top 10 in the ATP Rankings, and 26 of the Top 30 committed to play.<\/p>\n<p>Groups:<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRISBANE<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup A: Serbia, France, South Africa, Chile<br \/>\nGroup F: Germany, Greece, Canada, Australia<\/p>\n<p><strong>PERTH<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup B: Spain, Japan, Georgia, Uruguay<br \/>\nGroup D: Russia, Italy, USA, Norway<\/p>\n<p><strong>SYDNEY<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup C: Belgium, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Moldavia<br \/>\nGroup E: Austria, Croatia, Argentina, Poland<\/p>\n<p><strong>The group stages will be played over six days. Eight countries will then compete at the Final Eight in Sydney that will feature quarter-finals over two days, semi-finals and a final. Each tie will comprise of two singles and one doubles match.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field is set for the inaugural ATP Cup, to be held from 3-12 January, 2020, in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney. Top seed Serbia, led by Novak Djokovic, will play at the Pat Rafter Arena in Brisbane in Group A with France, South Africa and Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":127736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013097,101012354,101013086,118,101012352,101011780,101013085],"class_list":["post-127740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-cup-en","tag-australia-en","tag-brisbane-en","tag-draw","tag-perth-en","tag-serbia","tag-sydney-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127740","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=127740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127776,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127740\/revisions\/127776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}