{"id":154299,"date":"2022-05-08T20:33:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T18:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=154299"},"modified":"2022-05-10T17:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:19:49","slug":"novak-leads-italian-open-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-leads-italian-open-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak leads Italian Open field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draw for the 79th edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a> was made on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP Masters 1000 tournament takes place from May 8 to May 15 at Foro Italico in Rome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No.1 seed and five-time former champion Novak Djokovic has a first round BYE. He will open campaign in R2 against world no.34 Aslan Karatsev (RUS, H2H 1-1).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the competition are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round<\/strong>: Laslo Djere (SRB), Stan Wawrinka (SUI)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals<\/strong>: Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 8), Diego Schwartzman (ARG, 12), Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals<\/strong>: Rafael Nadal (ESP, 3), Casper Ruud (NOR, 5), Hubert Hurkacz (POL, 11), Denis Shapovalov (CAN, 13)<br \/>\n<strong>Finals<\/strong>: Alexander Zverev (GER, 2), Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 4), Andrey Rublev (RUS, 6), Carlos Alcaraz (ESP, 7)<\/p>\n<p>Novak lifted the Rome Masters trophy in 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he made a runner-up finish following a 5-7, 6-1, 3-6 loss to Rafael Nadal in the final.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ATP Masters 1000 tournament takes place from May 8 to May 15 at Foro Italico in Rome. As a top seed, Novak has a first round BYE. He will open his campaign in R2 against world no.34 Aslan Karatsev (RUS, H2H 1-1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":154183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[118,101013237,101013055,101011825,101012240],"class_list":["post-154299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-draw","tag-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-2022-en","tag-italian-open","tag-italy","tag-rome-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154299","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=154299"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154512,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154299\/revisions\/154512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}