{"id":163115,"date":"2023-02-25T10:59:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T09:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=163115"},"modified":"2023-02-27T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:05:50","slug":"novak-returns-to-action-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-returns-to-action-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak returns to action in Dubai, faces qualifier in Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four weeks after lifting the record-extending 10th Norman Brookes Challenge Cup at the Australian Open, Nole is set to return to court in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Five-time former champion and world no.1 Novak Djokovic returns to action next week in Dubai where he won the ATP 500 tournament in 2009-11, 2013 and 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event takes place at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre (February 27-March 4).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will open his <a href=\"https:\/\/dubaidutyfreetennischampionships.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships<\/a> campaign against Czech qualifier Tomas Machac (ATP #120) on Tuesday at 16.00 CET.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Serbian star could meet either Constant Lestienne (FRA) or Tallon Griekspoor (NED) in the<strong> second round<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His possible rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Hubert Hurkacz (POL, 5), Andy Murray (GBR)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 3), Borna Coric (CRO, 8)<br \/>\n<strong>Finals:<\/strong> Andrey Rublev (RUS, 2), Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 4), Karen Khachanov (RUS, 6), Alexander Zverev (GER, 7)<\/p>\n<p>Novak is making his 13th appearance (43-7 record), aiming for his sixth crown.<\/p>\n<p>Last year he was stopped by Czech Jiri Vesely in the quarter-final (4-6, 6-7).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four weeks after lifting the record-extending 10th Norman Brookes Challenge Cup at the Australian Open, Nole is set to return to court. The five-time former champion and world no.1 returns to action in Dubai where he won the ATP 500 event in 2009-11, 2013 and 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":163097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,118,101012429,101012199],"class_list":["post-163115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-draw","tag-dubai-duty-free-tennis-championships-en","tag-uae-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163115","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=163115"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163267,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163115\/revisions\/163267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}