{"id":1334,"date":"2011-08-25T18:34:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:34:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:14:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:14:14","slug":"nole-leads-us-open-field-as-top-seed-faces-niland-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-leads-us-open-field-as-top-seed-faces-niland-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole leads US Open field as top seed, faces Niland in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/864e.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photo: Reuters<\/font>{nl}{nl}As the world no.1, Novak is top-seeded at the US Open for the first time, followed by the defending champion Rafael Nadal and five-time winner Roger Federer.{nl}{nl}Competitions at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows (New York) begin on August 29, and last until September 11. {nl}{nl}The main singles draw has been made on Thursday afternoon local time. Nole will open campaign at his seventh US Open against a qualifier Conor Niland from Ireland, world number 199.{nl} {nl}If the last year\u2019s finalist (lost to Nadal 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 2-6) successfully passes first step towards the trophy, he will face the winner of the match between Spaniard Pere Riba and Argentine Carlos Berlocq.{nl} {nl}The world\u2018s best player might play against Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) or Ivan Dodig (CRO, 32) in the third round. {nl} {nl}Novak\u2019s possible opponents in the later stages of the tournament are: {nl} {nl}<u>4th round<\/u>: Richard Gasquet (FRA, 13), Ivo Karlovic (CRO), Aleksandr Dolgopolov (UKR, 22), Fernando Gonzalez (CHI){nl}<u>Quarterfinals<\/u>:  Gael Monfils (FRA, 7), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 9), Janko Tipsarevic (SRB, 20){nl}<u>Semifinals<\/u>: Roger Federer (SUI, 3), Mardy Fish (USA, 8), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 11), Viktor Troicki (SRB, 15){nl}{nl}Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2), Andy Murray (GBR, 4), David Ferrer (ESP, 5)&#8230; are in the bottom half of the draw, and Nole can\u2019t meet them before the finals.{nl}{nl}Champions in singles competition will each get $1,800,000. {nl}{nl}Novak won 26 matches of 32 he played in New York. This season the 24-year old from Belgrade has a 57-2 match record (33-1 on hard). {nl}{nl}He also has a fantastic 18-2 record against top 10 players in 2011.{nl} {nl}<b>Good luck Nole!<\/b>{nl}{nl}<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7lDrAA6lDfI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world no.1, Novak is top-seeded at the US Open for the first time, followed by the defending champion Rafael Nadal and five-time winner Roger Federer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010286],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-us-open-2011-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","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=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27089,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/27089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}