{"id":170011,"date":"2026-01-15T05:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=170011"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:56:44","slug":"novak-opens-the-season-at-the-australian-open-as-draw-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-opens-the-season-at-the-australian-open-as-draw-is-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak opens the season at the Australian Open as draw is revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The most successful player in <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Open<\/a> history will begin his 2026 campaign at Melbourne Park from January 18 to February 1, as he sets his sights on a record-breaking 25th Grand Slam title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak is no.4 seed and he will be defending his semi-final appearance from last season, along with 720 ATP ranking points, at the year\u2019s first major.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic will begin his quest for a 102nd career title against Pedro Mart\u00ednez (ESP, ATP no.71).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second round:<\/strong> Terence Atmane (FRA)<br \/>\n<strong>Third round:<\/strong> Brandon Nakashima (USA, 27), Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)<br \/>\n<strong>Fourth round:<\/strong> Jakub Men\u0161\u00edk (CZE, 16), Tallon Griekspoor (NED, 23)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarterfinals:<\/strong> Lorenzo Musetti (ITA, 5), Taylor Fritz (USA, 9), Ji\u0159\u00ed Lehe\u010dka (CZE, 17), Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 31)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Semifinals:<\/strong> Jannik Sinner (ITA, 2), Ben Shelton (USA, 8), Casper Ruud (NOR, 12), Karen Khachanov (RUS, 15)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final:<\/strong> Carlos Alcaraz (ESP, 1), Alexander Zverev (GER, 3), Alex de Minaur (AUS, 6), F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 7), Alexander Bublik (KAZ, 10)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the 24 Grand Slam trophies Novak has won, a record 10 have come at the Australian Open &#8211; in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most successful player in Australian Open history will begin his 2026 campaign at Melbourne Park from January 18 to February 1, as he sets his sights on a record-breaking 25th Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":170009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011992,101011735,118,101011740,101012051],"class_list":["post-170011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australia","tag-australian-open","tag-draw","tag-grand-slam","tag-melbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170011","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=170011"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170027,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170011\/revisions\/170027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}