{"id":26304,"date":"2012-04-15T03:51:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T02:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=26304"},"modified":"2012-04-17T13:55:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T12:55:22","slug":"nole-begins-clay-season-in-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-begins-clay-season-in-monte-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole begins clay season in Monte Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The draw has been made for Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, the first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament on clay in 2012.<\/p>\n

Nole is a top seed and has a first-round BYE. The 2012 Australian Open and Miami champion will begin his campaign against either world no.43 Italian Andreas Seppi or a qualifier.<\/p>\n

Djokovic has a 6-0 H2H record with Seppi, they last met in Madrid in 2009.<\/p>\n

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

3rd round: Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR, 16), Bernard Tomic (AUS)
\nQuarter-finals: David Ferrer (ESP, 5), Juan Monaco (ARG,11), Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)
\nSemi-finals: Andy Murray (GBR, 3), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 6), Kei Nishikori (JPN)<\/p>\n

Defending champion Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 4), Janko Tipsarevic (SRB, 7), Nicolas Almagro (ESP, 8), Feliciano Lopez (ESP, 10)\u2026are in the bottom half of the draw.<\/p>\n

The tournament begins on Sunday, April 15, and will be played until April 22.<\/p>\n

Last year Nole skipped Monte Carlo, so he can only gain points.<\/p>\n

This will be Novak\u2019s sixth appearance at the Masters event (11-5 record). His best result is 2009 final when he lost to Rafael Nadal in three sets.<\/p>\n

The Spain\u2019s world no.2 won an Open Era record seventh successive title there last year, defeating his fellow countryman David Ferrer in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nole is a top seed and has a first-round BYE. The 2012 Australian Open and Miami champion will begin his campaign against either world no.43 Italian Andreas Seppi or a qualifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[647,1672],"class_list":["post-26304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-clay","tag-monte-carlo-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26304","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=26304"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26997,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26304\/revisions\/26997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}