{"id":165579,"date":"2023-08-12T00:11:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T22:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=165579"},"modified":"2023-08-15T21:09:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T19:09:38","slug":"cincinnati-masters-draw-revealed-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/cincinnati-masters-draw-revealed-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Masters draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw for the <a href=\"https:\/\/wsopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western &amp; Southern Open<\/a> was made on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 Cincinnati Masters event will take place from August 13-20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak Djokovic is a second seed and has a first-round BYE. He will open campaign against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP, ATP #23).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> Gael Monfils (FRA), Cameron Norrie (GBR, 13), Alex de Minaur (AUS)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Jannik Sinner (ITA, 8), Taylor Fritz (USA, 9)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 3), Holger Rune (DEN, 6), Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 12), Alexander Zverev (GER, 16)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finals:<\/strong> Carlos Alcaraz (ESP, 1), Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 4), Casper Ruud (NOR, 5), Andrey Rublev (RUS, 7)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Novak claimed historic Cincinnati title in 2018 to become the first singles player to achieve Career Golden Masters.<\/p>\n<p>In his latest appearance at the Lindner Family Tennis Center, in 2020, he captured his second Western &amp; Southern Open crown.<\/p>\n<p>In the doubles competition, Novak and Nikola Cacic lost their first round match to Jamie Murray (GBR) and Michael Venus (NZL) 4-6, 2-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw for the Western &#038; Southern Open was made on Friday. Novak Djokovic is a second seed and has a first-round BYE. He will open campaign against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":165574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,118,101011267,101013350],"class_list":["post-165579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-draw","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-westernsouthern-open-2023-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165579","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=165579"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165596,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165579\/revisions\/165596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}