{"id":164711,"date":"2023-05-08T19:52:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=164711"},"modified":"2023-05-10T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T12:53:57","slug":"novak-leads-rome-masters-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-leads-rome-masters-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak leads Rome Masters field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draw for the 80th edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a> was made on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP Masters 1000 tournament takes place from May 10 to May 21 at Foro Italico in Rome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No.1 seed and six-time champion Novak Djokovic has a first round BYE. He will open title defence campaign in R2 against Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG, ATP #61).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the competition are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 26), Stan Wawrinka (SUI)<br \/>\n<strong>4th round:<\/strong> Cameron Norrie (GBR, 13), Alex De Minaur (AUS, 17)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Holger Rune (DEN, 7), Felix Auger-Alliasime (CAN, 10), Sebastian Korda (USA, 22), Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB, 30)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Casper Ruud (NOR, 4), Jannik Sinner (ITA, 8), Karen Khachanov (RUS, 11)<br \/>\n<strong>Finals:<\/strong> Carlos Alcaraz (ESP, 2). Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 3), Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 5), Andrey Rublev (RUS, 6)<\/p>\n<p>Novak lifted the Rome Masters trophy in 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final (6-0, 7-6) .<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No.1 seed and six-time champion Novak Djokovic has a first round BYE. He will open his title defence campaign in R2 against either Luca Van Assche (FRA) or Tomas Martin Echeverry (ARG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":164653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,118,101013337,101011267,101012240],"class_list":["post-164711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-draw","tag-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-2023-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rome-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164711","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=164711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164718,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164711\/revisions\/164718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}