{"id":140102,"date":"2021-02-05T03:58:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T02:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=140102"},"modified":"2021-02-10T10:25:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T09:25:29","slug":"2021-australian-open-draw-is-out-novak-to-face-_-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/2021-australian-open-draw-is-out-novak-to-face-_-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Australian Open draw is out, Novak to face Chardy in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Australian Open<\/a> official draw took place on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak, a record-extending eight-time AO champion, is a top seed. He will open title defence campaign against world no.66 Jeremy Chardy of France (H2H 13-0) on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>second round<\/strong>, Djokovic will play the winner of the match between Frances Tiafoe (USA, #62) and Stefano Travaglia (ITA, #71).<\/p>\n<p>The earliest seed he could meet is no.27, Taylor Fritz (USA), in <strong>round three<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth round:<\/strong> Milos Raonic (CAN, 14), Stan Wawrinka (SUI, 17)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Alexander Zverev (GER, 6), Gael Monfils (FRA, 10), Adrian Mannarino (FRA, 32)<br \/>\nSemi-finals: Dominic Thiem (AUT, 3), Diego Schwartzman (ARG, 8), Denis Shapovalov (CAN, 11)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final:<\/strong> Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2), Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 4), Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 5),&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak has won eight of his 17 Grand Slam titles in Melbourne (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, he beat Dominic Thiem 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the final.<\/p>\n<p>The year\u2019s first Grand Slam tournament starts on February 8.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2021 Australian Open draw took place on Friday. Novak, a record-extending eight-time AO champion, is a top seed. He will open title defence against world no.66 Jeremy Chardy of France (H2H 13-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":140098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012354,101013175,118,101012415],"class_list":["post-140102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australia-en","tag-australian-open-2021-en","tag-draw","tag-melbourne-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140102","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=140102"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140518,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140102\/revisions\/140518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}