{"id":129967,"date":"2020-01-16T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T07:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=129967"},"modified":"2020-01-19T23:21:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T22:21:27","slug":"2020-australian-open-draw-revealed-novak-vs-struff-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/2020-australian-open-draw-revealed-novak-vs-struff-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Australian Open draw revealed, Novak vs Struff in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 Australian Open<\/a> official draw took place at Margaret Court Arena on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak, a record seven-time AO champion, is no.2 seed. He will open title defence campaign on Monday, when he meets world no.37 Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany (H2H 2-0).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>second round<\/strong>, Djokovic will play against the winner of the match between Tatsuma Ito (JPN, #144) and Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND, LL, #122).<\/p>\n<p>The earliest seed he could face is no.30, Daniel Evans (GBR), in <strong>round three<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth round:<\/strong> Diego Schwartzman (ARG, 14), Dusan Lajovic (SRB, 24)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 6), Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 9), Benoit Paire (FRA, 21), Marin Cilic (CRO)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Roger Federer (SUI, 3), Matteo Berrettini (ITA, 8), Fabio Fognini (ITA, 12), Denis Shapovalov (CAN, 13), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 18)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final:<\/strong> Rafael Nadal (ESP, 1), Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 4), Dominic Thiem (AUT, 5), Alexander Zverev (GER, 7), Stan Wawrinka (SUI, 15)<\/p>\n<p>Novak has won seven of his 16 Grand Slam titles in Melbourne (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2019).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last year, he beat Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 in the final to claim a record seventh Australian Open title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The year\u2019s first Grand Slam tournament starts on January 20.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: The Australian<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 Australian Open official draw took place at Margaret Court Arena on Thursday. Novak, a record seven-time AO champion, is no.2 seed and will open title defence campaign on Monday when he meets world no.37 Jan-Lennard Struff of Germany (H2H 2-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":129963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012354,101013108,118,101010469,101012415],"class_list":["post-129967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australia-en","tag-australian-open-2020-en","tag-draw","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-melbourne-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129967","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=129967"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130077,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129967\/revisions\/130077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}