{"id":29175,"date":"2012-05-12T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=29175"},"modified":"2012-05-15T15:11:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T14:11:16","slug":"rome-masters-draw-revealed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rome-masters-draw-revealed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome Masters draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

The draw has been made for Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a>, the fifth ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in 2012.<\/p>\n

Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic has a first-round BYE. He will open his campaign against world no.32 Bernard Tomic. The Australian defeated Colombian qualifier Santiago Giraldo 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Serbian star has won their only previous meeting, the 2011 Wimbledon quarter-finals, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.<\/p>\n

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

3rd round<\/span>: Juan Monaco (ARG, 14), Radek Stepanek (CZE)
\nQuarter-finals<\/span>: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 6), Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 10)
\nSemi-finals<\/span>: Roger Federer (SUI, 3), Janko Tipsarevic (SRB,8)
\nFinals<\/span>: Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2), Andy Murray (GBR, 4), David Ferrer (ESP, 5), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 7)<\/p>\n

Novak conquered Rome in 2008 and 2011. Last year he beat Lukasz Kubot, Stanislas Wawrinka, Robin Soderling, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal, respectively.<\/p>\n

The last of three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events contested on clay will be played in the capital of Italy for the prize money of \u20ac 2,427,975.<\/p>\n

The winner will get \u20ac460,260 and 1000 ATP points.<\/p>\n

Photo: Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year Nole defeated Lukasz Kubot, Stanislas Wawrinka, Robin Soderning, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal, and lifted his second trophy in Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012239],"class_list":["post-29175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-rome-2012-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29175","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=29175"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29179,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29175\/revisions\/29179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}