{"id":170903,"date":"2026-09-28T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=170903"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:44:12","slug":"novak-s-path-at-the-china-open-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-s-path-at-the-china-open-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak\u2019s path at the China Open revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a decade, Novak will return to Beijing. The Serbian is set to make his comeback at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaopen.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China Open<\/a>, an ATP 500 event he has won every time he has competed there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak\u2019s return to Chinese soil is scheduled for September 30, with the Serbian seeded No. 6.<\/strong> The organisers released the complete main-draw bracket on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will begin his campaign against Nuno Borges of Portugal (PRT), the world No. 49.<\/strong> The pair have met just once before, in last year\u2019s ATP tournament in Athens, where the Serbian prevailed in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second round:<\/strong> Juan Manuel Cerundolo (ARG)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-final:<\/strong> Alexander Zverev (GER, 1), Sebastian Baez (ARG)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-final:<\/strong> Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 3), Jakub Mensik (CZE, 8)<\/p>\n<p>The other half of the draw features Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN, 2), Alex de Minaur (AUS, 5), Flavio Cobolli (ITA, 4) and others, meaning one of them could potentially stand between Novak and the title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak returns to Beijing with a perfect record. In his six previous appearances at the China Open, he played 29 matches and won all 29, lifting the trophy six times.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His last appearance at the tournament came in 2015, when he defeated Rafael Nadal in the final to claim his sixth Beijing title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak\u2019s return to Chinese soil is scheduled for September 30, with the Serbian seeded No. 6. The organisers released the complete main-draw bracket on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":170900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013282,101012128,101012131,101013547,118],"class_list":["post-170903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en-2","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-china-open","tag-draw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170903","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=170903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170904,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170903\/revisions\/170904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}