{"id":169813,"date":"2025-10-31T21:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=169813"},"modified":"2025-11-02T19:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:58:33","slug":"atp-athens-draw-announced-novak-gets-a-first-round-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/atp-athens-draw-announced-novak-gets-a-first-round-bye\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Athens draw announced, Novak gets a first-round Bye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Singles draw for the <a href=\"https:\/\/hellenicchampionship.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanda Pharmaceuticals Hellenic Championship<\/a>, an ATP 250 tournament, was held on Friday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak Djokovic is the top seed and has a BYE in the first round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the second round, the Serbian star will face Chile\u2019s Alejandro Tabilo, the world No. 82.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak has a negative H2H record against Tabilo. They have met twice, both times on clay, and the Chilean won both matches.<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s possible opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p>Quarter-finals: Laslo Djere (SRB), Stefanos Sakellaridis (GRE)<br \/>\nSemi-finals: Brandon Nakashima (USA, 4), Reilly Opelka (USA)<br \/>\nFinal: Lorenzo Musetti (ITA, 2), Stan Wawrinka (SUI), Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)<\/p>\n<p><strong> The event will take place in Athens from November 2 to November 8.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can download Novak\u2019s November 2025 calendar <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Calendar_November2025.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw for the Vanda Pharmaceuticals Hellenic Championship, an ATP 250 tournament, was held on Friday afternoon. The event will take place in Athens from November 2 to November 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":169822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013491,101012178,118,101013423],"class_list":["post-169813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-athens-en","tag-atp-250-en-2","tag-draw","tag-greece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169813","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=169813"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169830,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169813\/revisions\/169830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}