{"id":163907,"date":"2023-04-07T17:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=163907"},"modified":"2023-04-10T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:26:35","slug":"rolex-monte-carlo-masters-draw-revealed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rolex-monte-carlo-masters-draw-revealed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw has been made for the <a href=\"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/a>, taking place at the Monte-Carlo Country Club from April 9 until April 16.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak is a top seed and has a first-round BYE. The world no.1 will open his 2023 clay-court season campaign against Ivan Gakhov (RUS, Q), in his first appearance since falling in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships semis to Daniil Medvedev.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> Lorenzo Musetti (ITA, 16), Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Jannik Sinner (ITA, 7), Hubert Hurkacz (POL, 10), Diego Schwartzman (ARG)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 3), Holger Rune (DEN, 6), Cameron Norrie (GBR, 11), Alexander Zverev (RUS, 13), Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP), Dominic Thiem (AUT, WC)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 2), Casper Ruud (NOR, 4), Andrey Rublev (RUS, 5), Taylor Fritz (USA, 8), Karen Khachanov (RUS, 9)&#8230; are in the opposite half of the draw, and Novak can\u2019t meet them before the <strong>final<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic won the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters title twice, in 2013 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Last year he lost to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the second round (3-6, 7-6, 1-6).<\/p>\n<p>This will be Novak\u2019s 16th appearance at the event (35-13 record).<\/p>\n<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas is a defending champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak is a top seed and has a first-round BYE. The world no.1 will open his 2023 clay-court season campaign on Tuesday against Ivan Gakhov (RUS, Q, ATP #186).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":163905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,118,101011202,101012331,101012329,101013052],"class_list":["post-163907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-draw","tag-masters-en","tag-monaco-en","tag-monte-carlo-en","tag-rolex-monte-carlo-masters-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163907","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=163907"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163996,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163907\/revisions\/163996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}