{"id":166654,"date":"2024-01-11T03:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T02:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=166654"},"modified":"2024-01-12T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T14:59:01","slug":"2024-australian-open-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/2024-australian-open-draw-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Australian Open draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Australian Open<\/a> official draw took place on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak, a record-extending ten-time AO champion, is a top seed. He will open the campaign against 18-year-old Dino Prizmic from Croatia (qualifier, ATP no. 178).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>second round<\/strong>, Djokovic will play against the winner of the match between two Australians, Alexei Popyrin and Marc Polmans (WC).<\/p>\n<p>The earliest seed he could meet is no.30, Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG), in <strong>round three<\/strong>, or he could face Andy Murray in that stage of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth round:<\/strong> Ben Shelton (USA, 16), Adrian Mannarino (FRA, 20), Stan Wawrinka (SUI)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 7), Taylor Fritz (USA, 12)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Jannik Sinner (ITA, 4), Andrey Rublev (RUS, 5), Alex de Minaur (AUS, 10), Karen Khachanov (RUS, 15)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final:<\/strong> Carlos Alcaraz (ESP, 2), Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 3), Alexander Zverev (GER, 6), Holger Rune (DEN, 8), Hubert Hurkacz (POL, 9), Casper Ruud (NOR, 11)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak has won 10 of his 24 Grand Slam titles in Melbourne (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The year\u2019s first Grand Slam tournament starts on January 14 (Sunday).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Australian Open singles draw took place on Thursday. Novak, a record-extending ten-time AO champion, is a top seed. He will open the campaign against Croatian qualifier Dino Prizmic (ATP no.178).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":166650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012354,101013386,118,101012415,101013387],"class_list":["post-166654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australia-en","tag-australian-open-2024-en","tag-draw","tag-melbourne-en","tag-melbourne-park-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166654","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=166654"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166687,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166654\/revisions\/166687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}