{"id":1322,"date":"2011-08-13T01:48:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T00:48:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T14:52:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:52:29","slug":"cincinnati-draw-revealed-nole-and-federer-in-the-same-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/cincinnati-draw-revealed-nole-and-federer-in-the-same-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati draw revealed, Nole and Federer in the same half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/573.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photo: Getty Images<\/font>{nl}{nl}The draw for the Western &#038; Southern Open, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati (hard, $2,430,000) is out. The tournament starts on Sunday, August 14.{nl}{nl}Nole is top-seeded and has a first round BYE. This will be his seventh appearance in Cincinnati.{nl}{nl}The 2008 and 2009 runner-up will face either world no.22 Argentine Juan Ignacio Chela or American Ryan Harrison in the second round.{nl}{nl}Novak leads 2-0 against Chela and has never played Harrison before.{nl}{nl}Potential rivals of the world&#8217;s best player in the later stages of the tournament are:{nl}{nl}<u>3rd round<\/u>: Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI, 16), John Isner (USA){nl}<u>Quarter-finals<\/u>: Gael Monfils (FRA, 6), Andy Roddick (USA, 11){nl}<u>Semi-finals<\/u>: Roger Federer (SUI, 3), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 8), Nicolas Almagro (ESP, 9), Viktor Troicki (SRB, 14), Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG){nl}{nl}Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2), Andy Murray (GBR, 4), Mardy Fish (USA, 7), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 15) &#8230; are in the bottom half of the draw.{nl}{nl}Nole won 11 out of 17 matches at the Western &#038; Southern Financial Group Masters. Last year he lost in the quarter-final to American Andy Roddick, 4-6, 5-7. {nl}{nl}World no.3 Roger Federer is the defending champion. The Swiss beat Mardy Fish in three sets in last year\u2019s final.{nl}{nl}For more information about the tournament visit  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincytennis.com\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"red\">www.cincytennis.com<\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draw for the Western &#038; Southern Open, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati (hard, $2,430,000) is out. The tournament starts on Sunday, August 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011861],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-cincinnati-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","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=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27997,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/27997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}