{"id":139554,"date":"2021-01-22T03:04:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T02:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=139554"},"modified":"2021-01-25T13:19:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:19:01","slug":"atp-cup-serbia-in-group-a-with-germany-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/atp-cup-serbia-in-group-a-with-germany-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Cup: Serbia in Group A with Germany and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draw for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atpcup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2021 ATP Cup<\/a> has been made on Friday. The ceremony was hosted by Todd Woodbridge, with participation from Mark Philippoussis, John Fitzgerald, Jim Courier and Mark Petchey.<\/p>\n<p>The teams are divided into four groups of three for the group stage. Each tie will be comprised of two singles and one doubles match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top seed and 2020 champion Serbia, which will be led by world no.1 Novak Djokovic, has been selected into Group A along with Canada (February 2) and Germany (February 4).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Group A:<\/strong> Serbia, Germany, Canada<br \/>\n<strong>Group B:<\/strong> Spain, Greece, Australia<br \/>\n<strong>Group C:<\/strong> Austria, Italy, France<br \/>\n<strong>Group D:<\/strong> Russia, Argentina, Japan<\/p>\n<p>The group winners will qualify for the knock-out semifinals (February 5 at 07.30 CET).<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne Park will host the ATP Cup this year, which will be played from February 2 to February 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ATP Cup Group A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Team Serbia:<\/strong> Novak Djokovic, Dusan Lajovic, Filip Krajinovic, Nikola Cacic<br \/>\nTeam Germany: Alexander Zverev, Jan-Lennard Struff, Kevin Krawietz, Andreas Mies<br \/>\nTeam Canada: Denis Shapovalov, Milos Raonic, Peter Polansky, Steven Diez<\/p>\n<p>Serbia memorably defeated Spain 2-1 in the inaugural ATP Cup final last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Park will host the ATP Cup this year, which will be played from February 2 to February 6.<br \/>\n2020 champion Serbia, which will be led by world no.1 Novak Djokovic, has been selected into Group A along with Germany and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":139553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013097,101012354,101012415],"class_list":["post-139554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-cup-en","tag-australia-en","tag-melbourne-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139554","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=139554"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139644,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139554\/revisions\/139644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}