{"id":168775,"date":"2025-03-17T18:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=168775"},"modified":"2025-03-19T23:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T22:10:48","slug":"draw-announced-for-miami-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/draw-announced-for-miami-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw announced for Miami Open presented by Ita\u00fa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak is set to make his first appearance at Miami Open since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Singles draw has been made for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Open presented by Ita\u00fa<\/a>, the second ATP Masters 1000 event in 2025, taking place from March 19 to March 30.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Six-time former champion Novak Djokovic is no.4 seed and has a first round BYE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic will open his campaign against Rinky Hijikata (AUS) in the second round.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third round:<\/strong> Alex Michelsen (USA, 32) or a qualifier<br \/>\n<strong>Fourth round:<\/strong> Lorenzo Musetti (ITA, 15), Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 18)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarterfinals:<\/strong> Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 7), Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 9), Sebastian Korda (USA, 24)<br \/>\n<strong>Semifinals:<\/strong> Carlos Alcaraz (ESP, 2), Casper Ruud (NOR, 5)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final:<\/strong> Alexander Zverev (GER, 1), Taylor Fritz (USA, 3), Andrey Rublev (RUS, 8) \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Novak has been victorious in Miami on six occasions (2007, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016). He is tied with Andre Agassi for the most triumphs.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Serbian star would win the 100th tour-level title if he can lift the trophy in Miami for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Miami Open<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak is set to make his first appearance at Miami Open since 2019. The second Masters 1000 tournament of the season takes place from March 19 to March 30. The six-time former champion is no.4 seed and has a first round bye. He will open his campaign against Rinky Hijikata (AUS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":168772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013390,118,101011267,101012023,101013456,101011960],"class_list":["post-168775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en-2","tag-draw","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-miami","tag-miami-open-en-2","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168775","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=168775"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168797,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168775\/revisions\/168797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}