{"id":1411,"date":"2012-01-09T13:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:14:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:13:04","slug":"nole-given-top-seed-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-given-top-seed-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole given top seed in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/814.jpg>{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo: AP<\/font>{nl}{nl}<b>Defending champion Novak Djokovic is the top seed for the Australian Open, which gets underway in Melbourne on January 16.<\/b>{nl}{nl}The world no.1 tops the men&#8217;s side of the draw from Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, with Britain&#8217;s Andy Murray the fourth seed.{nl}{nl}Men&#8217;s top 16 seeds:{nl}{nl}<font color=\"red\">1 Novak Djokovic (SRB)<\/font>{nl}2 Rafael Nadal (ESP){nl}3 Roger Federer (SUI){nl}4 Andy Murray (GBR){nl}5 David Ferrer (ESP){nl}6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA){nl}7 Tomas Berdych (CZE){nl}8 Mardy Fish (USA){nl}9 Janko Tipsarevic (SRB){nl}10 Nicolas Almagro (ESP){nl}11 Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG){nl}12 Gilles Simon (FRA){nl}13 Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR){nl}14 Gael Monfils (FRA){nl}15 Andy Roddick (USA){nl}16 John Isner (USA){nl}{nl}Nole defeated Andy Murray in last year&#8217;s final at the start of a remarkable year for the 24-year-old Serb as he went on to win Wimbledon and US Open, taking the world number one spot away from Nadal.{nl}{nl}The draw for the first Grand Slam tournament of the season will be held on Friday, January 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Novak Djokovic is the top seed for the Australian Open, which gets underway in Melbourne on January 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010274],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2012-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","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=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27011,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/27011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}