{"id":169642,"date":"2025-09-29T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=169642"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:04:08","slug":"draw-revealed-for-2025-rolex-shanghai-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/draw-revealed-for-2025-rolex-shanghai-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw revealed for 2025 Rolex Shanghai Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 14th edition of the Rolex Shanghai Masters will take place from October 1 to October 12.<\/p>\n

Four-time tournament champion Novak Djokovic is among stars who will take their place in the 96-player field, along with Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev, Taylor Fritz, Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev…<\/p>\n

The 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2018 Shanghai Masters winner is looking to win his 41st ATP Masters 1000 trophy and 101st singles title of his career.<\/p>\n

2024 singles draw ceremony has been held on Monday. Thirty two seeds (1-32) got BYE in the first round.<\/p>\n

Novak is the fourth seed. He will open campaign in the second round against Marin Cilic (CRO, ATP #97).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Djokovic\u2019s possible rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n

3rd round: Frances Tiafoe (USA, 25), Lorenzo Sonego (ITA)
\n4th Round: Andrey Rublev (RUS, 13), Flavio Cobolli (ITA, 22)
\nQuarter-finals: Ben Shelton (USA, 6), Casper Ruud (NOR, 11)
\nSemi-finals: Jannik Sinner (ITA, 1), Taylor Fritz (USA, 5)
\nFinals: Carlos Alcaraz (Spain, 2), Alexander Zverev (GER, 3), Alex De Minaur (AUS, 7)<\/p>\n

Last year, Novak fell to Jannik Sinner in the final (6-7, 3-6).<\/p>\n

You can download Novak\u2019s October 2025 calendar here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo: ATP World Tour<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four-time tournament champion Novak is among stars who will take their place in the 96-player field, along with Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev, Taylor Fritz, Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev… Djokovic is the fourth seed. He will open campaign in the second round against Marin Cilic (CRO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":169638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012345,118,101011267,101013094,101012348],"class_list":["post-169642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-china-en","tag-draw","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rolex-shanghai-masters-en","tag-shanghai-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169642","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169651,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169642\/revisions\/169651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}