{"id":167556,"date":"2024-06-28T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=167556"},"modified":"2024-06-28T15:06:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T13:06:38","slug":"wimbledon-2024-novak-vs-kopriva-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/wimbledon-2024-novak-vs-kopriva-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2024: Novak vs Kopriva in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three and a half weeks after knee surgery and a successful recovery, Novak is returning to the court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gentlemen\u2019s singles draw has been made for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a>, the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The third Grand Slam of the season and only grass court Major event, will be held from July 1-14, at the All England Lawn Tennis Club.<\/p>\n<p>128 players will be playing for The Championships trophy and 2000 ATP points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In his 19th appearance at Wimbledon, Novak (2) will open his campaign against world no.123 Vit Kopriva (CZE, Q) on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seven-time former champion might face the winner of the clash between Jacob Fearnley (GBR, WC) and Alejandro Moro Canas (ESP) in the <strong>second round<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third round:<\/strong> Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG, 30)<br \/>\n<strong>Fourth round:<\/strong> Holger Rune (DEN, 15), Karen Khachanov (RUS, 21)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-final:<\/strong> Hubert Hurkacz (POL, 7), Alex De Minaur (AUS, 7), Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 17)&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-final:<\/strong> Alexander Zverev (GER, 4), Andrey Rublev (RUS, 6), Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 11), Taylor Fritz (USA, 13)&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Final:<\/strong> Jannik Sinner (ITA, 1), Carlos Alcaraz (ESP, 3), Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 5), Casper Ruud, (NOR, 8), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 10), Tommy Paul (USA, 12)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Novak won The Championships trophy in 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022. Last year he fell to Carlos Alcaraz in the Final (6-1, 6-7 (6), 1-6, 6-3, 4-6).<\/p>\n<p>Nole&#8217;s desktop calendar for July 2024 you can download <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Calendar_July2024.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three and a half weeks after knee surgery and a successful recovery, Novak is returning to the court. Gentlemen\u2019s singles draw has been made for Wimbledon, the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":167549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[118,101013247,101013248,101011445,101011896],"class_list":["post-167556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-draw","tag-great-britain","tag-london-en-2","tag-the-championships","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167556","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=167556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167565,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167556\/revisions\/167565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}