{"id":33345,"date":"2012-08-13T19:41:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T01:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=33345"},"modified":"2012-08-14T19:21:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T17:21:49","slug":"cincinnati-draw-revealed-nole-and-murray-in-the-same-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/cincinnati-draw-revealed-nole-and-murray-in-the-same-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati: Nole to play Seppi in R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Nole protiv Sepija u 2. kolu Sinsinatija\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cincinnati_02_getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Singles draw for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincytennis.com\" target=\"_blank\">Western &amp; Southern Open<\/a>, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati was made on Friday. The tournament begins on Sunday,\u00a0August 12.<\/p>\n<p>Nole is no.2 seed and has a first round BYE. This will be his eighth appearance in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He will face world no.27 Andreas Seppi in the second round. Seppi <strong>beat Robin Haase of Netherlands<\/strong> 6-4, 6-4 in Round 1.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak leads 8-0 against the Italian.<\/p>\n<p>Nole\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3rd round<\/span>: Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR, 13), Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Quarter-finals<\/span>: Janko Tipsarevic (SRB, 7), Marin Cilic (CRO,12)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Semi-finals<\/span>: Andy Murray (GBR, 3), Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 6), John Isner (USA, 9)<\/p>\n<p>Roger Federer (SUI, 1), David Ferrer (ESP, 4), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 5)\u2026 are in the top half of the draw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak finished runner-up in Cincinnati in 2008, 2009 and 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year a sore shoulder forced him to retire in the second set of the final match against Andy Murray.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole will face world no.27 Italian Andreas Seppi in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012288,118,101010627,101010626],"class_list":["post-33345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-cincinnati-2012-en","tag-draw","tag-haase-en","tag-seppi-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33345","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=33345"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33348,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33345\/revisions\/33348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}