{"id":1314,"date":"2011-08-06T07:29:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T06:29:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T14:54:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:54:31","slug":"rogers-cup-nole-to-make-a-debut-as-world-no-1-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rogers-cup-nole-to-make-a-debut-as-world-no-1-in-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Cup: Nole to make a debut as world no.1 in Montreal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/569.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photo: AP<\/font>{nl}{nl}The draw has been made for the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Montreal ($ 2,430,000). The sixth Masters tournament of the season begins on Monday, August 8, and will be held till August 14.{nl}{nl}After a month off, the Australian Open and Wimbledon 2011 champion Novak Djokovic begins his North American summer hard court season in the second-largest city in Canada. The best Serbian tennis player is top seed and has a first-round BYE.{nl}{nl}The world no.1 will open his campaign in the second round against either former world no.3, curently ranked no.30 Russian Nikolay Davydenko or a qualifier.  Djokovic and Davydenko have met five times, Nole leads 3-2.{nl}{nl}Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:{nl}{nl}<u>3rd round<\/u>: Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG,16), Marin Cilic (CRO){nl}<u>Quarter-finals<\/u>: Gael Monfils (FRA,5), Viktor Troicki SRB,12), Marcos Baghdatis (CYP){nl}<u>Semi-finals<\/u>: Roger Federer (SUI,3), Nicolas Almagro (ESP,8), Richard Gasquet (FRA,10), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA,13){nl}{nl}Rafael Nadal (ESP,2), Andy Murray (GBR,4), Mardy Fish (USA,6), Tomas Berdych (CZE,7)&#8230; are in the bottom half of the draw.{nl}{nl}Last year Novak lost his semifinal match against Swiss Roger Federer  1-6, 6-3, 5-7.{nl}{nl}This will be Nole\u2019s fifth appearance at the Rogers Cup. The 24-year-old Belgrade native won the title on his 2007 debut in Montreal (defeated Federer in the final).{nl}{nl}Andy Murray is the two-time defending champion. He beat Federer in last year\u2019s final.{nl}{nl}Novak will also play doubles at the Rogers Cup. He will team up with his friend and compatriot Janko Tipsarevic against Mark Knowles (BAH) and Philipp Petzschner (GER).{nl}{nl}Good luck Nole!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draw has been made for the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Montreal ($ 2,430,000). The sixth Masters tournament of the season begins on Monday, August 8, and will be held till August 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010359],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-montreal-2011-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28004,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/28004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}