{"id":165082,"date":"2023-05-25T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=165082"},"modified":"2023-05-28T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T13:35:49","slug":"rg-2023-novak-to-open-campaign-against-kovacevic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rg-2023-novak-to-open-campaign-against-kovacevic\/","title":{"rendered":"RG 2023: Novak to open campaign against Kovacevic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw has been made for the second Grand Slam event of the season, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland Garros<\/a>, taking place in Paris, from May 28 to June 11.<\/p>\n<p>The first round matches will be played during the first three days of the competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third seed Novak Djokovic will open his 2023 French Open campaign against world no.114 Aleksandar Kovacevic (USA) on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic might face Marton Fucsovics (HUN, ATP #80) or Hugo Grenier (FRA, WC, ATP #122) in <strong>round two<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP, 29), Marco Cecchinato (ITA)<br \/>\n<strong>4th round:<\/strong> Hubert Hurkacz (POL, 13), Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 19)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Andrey Rublev (RUS, 7), Karen Khachanov (RUS, 11), Stan Wawrinka (SUI)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Carlos Alcaraz (ESP, 1), Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 5), Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 10)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finals:<\/strong> Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 2), Casper Ruud (NOR, 4), Jannik Sinner (ITA, 8)<\/p>\n<p>It will be Novak\u2019s 19th appearance on Parisian clay (85-16 record). He has won Coupe des Mousquetaires twice (2016 and 2021). Last year he fell to Rafael Nadal in the quarter-final (2-6, 6-4, 2-6, 6-7).<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic will be bidding for a record 23rd Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: JB Autissier \/ Panoramic<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No.3 seed and 2022 quarter-finalist will open his Roland Garros campaign against world no.114 Aleksandar Kovacevic (USA). It will be their first career meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":165074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[118,101012251,101011211,101010469,101012260,101013338],"class_list":["post-165082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-draw","tag-france-en","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris-en","tag-roland-garros-2023-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165082","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=165082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165085,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165082\/revisions\/165085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}