{"id":158320,"date":"2022-10-03T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T08:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=158320"},"modified":"2022-10-05T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T08:11:54","slug":"novak-fourth-seed-as-astana-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-fourth-seed-as-astana-draw-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak fourth seed as Astana Open draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Astana Open returns for a third instalment and the Kazakh capital will host another stellar line-up.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/astanaopen.kz\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astana Open<\/a> takes place between October 3-10. After two ATP 250 events, the organizers have raised the bar ahead of the 2022 edition, and Astana has become an ATP 500 tournament. The 21-time Major champion Novak has joined the field. He will make his debut as a wild card entry.<\/p>\n<p>Singles main draw has been made on Saturday. <strong>Novak is a fourth seed and will face world no.81 Cristian Garin (H2H 2-0) in the opening round.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian star could meet Botic Van De Zandschulp (NED) in the <strong>second round<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His possible opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarter-finals<\/strong>: Marin Cilic (CRO, 9), Karen Khachanov (RUS)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals<\/strong>: Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 2), Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 8)<br \/>\n<strong>Finals<\/strong>: Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 3), Andrey Rublev (RUS, 5), Hubert Hurkacz (POL, 7)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak will compete at the ATP 500 event in Astana as a wild card entry. The Serb is a fourth seed and will face world no.81 Cristian Garin (CHI, H2H 2-0) in the first round. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":158297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013270,101012179,118,908],"class_list":["post-158320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-astana-open-en","tag-atp-500-en","tag-draw","tag-kazakhstan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158320","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=158320"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158539,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158320\/revisions\/158539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}