{"id":143350,"date":"2021-05-08T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T09:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=143350"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T12:48:57","slug":"novak-leads-the-2021-rome-masters-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/uncategorized-en\/novak-leads-the-2021-rome-masters-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak to face Fritz in R2 of ATP Masters in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draw for the 78th edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a> has been made on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP Masters 1000 tournament will take place from September 9 to September 16 at Foro Italico in Rome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No.1 seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic has a first round BYE. He will open his campaign in R2 against world no.31 Taylor Fritz (USA, H2H 3-0).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the competition are:<\/p>\n<p>3rd round: Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 16), Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP)<br \/>\nQuarter-finals: Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 5), Matteo Berrettini (ITA, 9)<br \/>\nSemi-finals: Dominic Thiem (AUT, 4), Andrey Rublev (RUS, 7), Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 10)<br \/>\nFinals: Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2), Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 3), Alexander Zverev (GER, 6), Diego Schwartzman (ARG, 8)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nole conquered Rome five times, in 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year, he lifted the Italian Open trophy following a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Diego Schwartzman in the final.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No.1 seed and defending champion Novak has a first round BYE. He will open his 2021 Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia campaign in R2 against world no.31 Taylor Fritz (USA, H2H 3-0).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":143348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143350","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=143350"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143376,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143350\/revisions\/143376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}