{"id":168368,"date":"2024-12-28T08:58:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T07:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=168368"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T10:42:51","slug":"atp-brisbane-nole-to-face-__-in-2025-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/atp-brisbane-nole-to-face-__-in-2025-season-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Brisbane: Nole vs Hijikata in season opener, wins R1 in doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nole headlines stellar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbaneinternational.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brisbane International<\/a> line-up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>World no.7 and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic is playing at the Brisbane International for the first time since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP 250 tournament runs from December 29 until January 5, and will be a warm up event for the 2025 Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The singles draw has been made. Novak is a top seed. He will open his campaign against Rinky Hijikata (AUS, ATP #73, WC).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole\u2019s possible rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>2nd round:<\/strong> Gael Monfils (FRA)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Alexei Popyrin (AUS, 7)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Frances Tiafoe (USA, 4), Sebastian Korda (USA, 5)<br \/>\n<strong>Finals:<\/strong> Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 2), Holger Rune (DEN, 3), Alejandro Tabilo (CHI, 6)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to be kicking off my Australian swing at the Brisbane International and to compete again at Pat Rafter Arena,&#8221;<\/em> said Djokovic. <em>&#8220;I am looking forward to experiencing the incredible support from the Australian fans and making this tournament one to remember.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak and Nick Kyrgios teamed up in doubles competition. They defeated Alexander Erler (AUT) and Andreas Mies (GER) 6-4, 6-7 (4), 10-8.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian\/Australian duo will next take on top seeds Nikola Mektic (CRO) and Michael Venus (NZL).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole headlines stellar Brisbane International line-up. The ATP 250 tournament runs from December 29 until January 5, and will be a warm up event for the 2025 Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":168389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013398,101011992,101013448,101013449,118],"class_list":["post-168368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-250-en","tag-australia","tag-brisbane","tag-brisbane-international-en","tag-draw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168368","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=168368"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168393,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168368\/revisions\/168393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}