{"id":169383,"date":"2025-06-27T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=169383"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:56:56","slug":"wimbledon-2025-novak-vs-muller-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/wimbledon-2025-novak-vs-muller-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2025: Novak vs Muller in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 June 30-July 13, 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 20th appearance at Wimbledon, Novak (6) will open his campaign against world no.40 Alexandre Muller (FRA).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seven-time former champion might face the winner of the clash between Daniel Evans (GBR, WC) and Jay Clarke (GBR, WC) in the <strong>second round<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third round:<\/strong> Alex Michelsen (USA, 30), Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)<br \/>\n<strong>Fourth round:<\/strong> Alex de Minaur (AUS, 11), Tomas Machac (CZE, 21)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarterfinals:<\/strong> Jack Draper (GBR, 4), Jan Mensik (CZE, 15)<br \/>\n<strong>Semifinals:<\/strong> Jannik Sinner (ITA, 1), Lorenzo Musetti (ITA, 7), Ben Shelton (USA, 10)<br \/>\n<strong>Final:<\/strong> Carlos Alcaraz (ESP, 2), Alexander Zverev (GER, 3), Taylor Fritz (USA, 5), Holger Rune (DEN, 8), Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 9)&#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 2-6, 2-6, 6-7 (4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentlemen\u2019s singles draw has been made for Wimbledon, the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world (June 30-July 13). In his 20th appearance at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Novak (6) will open his campaign against world no.40 Alexandre Muller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":169378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[118,101011740,101013247,101013248,101013279,101011896],"class_list":["post-169383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-draw","tag-grand-slam","tag-great-britain","tag-london-en-2","tag-round-1","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169383","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=169383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169384,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169383\/revisions\/169384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}