{"id":28783,"date":"2012-05-04T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T19:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=28783"},"modified":"2012-05-08T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:00:23","slug":"novak-leads-strong-madrid-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-leads-strong-madrid-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak leads strong Madrid line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nole arrived in Madrid on Wednesday with a 24-3 record on the season. He will defend his title at the second Masters event on clay in 2012, taking place from May 6 till May 13.<\/p>\n

A year ago, Novak defeated Rafael Nadal in the Mutua Madrid Open<\/a> final 7-5, 6-4. It was Nole\u2019s first ever win on clay over the Spaniard.<\/p>\n

The 2012 Australian Open and Miami champion is a top seed and has a first-round BYE.<\/p>\n

He will open his campaign against world no.137 Spanish qualifier Daniel Gimeno-Traver who beat Romanian Victor Hanescu 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n

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

3rd round:<\/strong> Feliciano Lopez (ESP, 13), Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)
\nQuarter-finals:<\/strong> Janko Tipsarevic (SRB, 7), Gilles Simon (FRA, 9), Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)
\nSemi-finals:<\/strong> Roger Federer (SUI, 3), David Ferrer (ESP, 5)
\nFinals:<\/strong> Rafael Nadal (ESP,2), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 4), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 6), Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 10) \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world no.1 arrived in Madrid on Wednesday with a 24-3 record on the season. He will defend his title at the second ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on clay in 2012, taking place from May 6 till May 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":28776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012233],"class_list":["post-28783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-madrid-2012-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28783","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=28783"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28787,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28783\/revisions\/28787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}