{"id":35852,"date":"2012-10-08T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=35852"},"modified":"2012-10-10T09:53:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T07:53:06","slug":"shanghai-masters-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/shanghai-masters-draw-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai: Nole vs Dimitrov in R2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2012 Shanghai Rolex Masters<\/a> draw ceremony was held on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event is taking place from October 7-14.<\/p>\n

Fifty six players will take part. Eight seeds (1-8) get BYE in the first round. Novak is no.2 seed and will open his quest for his 13th Masters title in the second round against world no.56 Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov who beat Spaniard Pablo Andujar 7-5, 6-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It will be their first career meeting. Match is scheduled on Wednesday about\u00a016.00 local time (10.00 CET).<\/p>\n

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

3rd round:<\/span> Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER, 16), Feliciano Lopez (ESP)
\nQuarter-finals:<\/span> Janko Tipsarevic (SRB, 6), Nicolas Almagro (ESP, 9), Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)
\nSemi-finals:<\/span> Tomas Berdych (CZE, 4), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 5), Milos Raonic (CAN, 12)<\/p>\n

Roger Federer (SUI, 1), Andy Murray (GBR, 3), Juan Monaco (ARG, 7), John Isner (USA, 8)\u2026 are in the other half of the draw.<\/p>\n

Novak didn\u2019t play Shanghai last year due to injury. He reached semi-finals in 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Serbian star won Tennis Masters Cup title at Shanghai Qi Zhong Stadium in 2008 (def. Davydenko).<\/p>\n

Full Draw:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roger Federer [1] – Bye
\nZe Zhang [WC] – Qualifier
\nDenis Istomin – Carlos Berlocq
\nStanislas Wawrinka [13]\u00a0 – Albert Ramos<\/p>\n

Marin Cilic [10]\u00a0 – Qualifier
\nMartin Klizan – Thomaz Bellucci
\nFernando Verdasco – Go Soeda
\nJuan Monaco [7] – Bye<\/p>\n

Andy Murray [3] – Bye
\nFlorian Mayer – Bernard Tomic
\nAlexandr Dolgopolov – Jeremy Chardy
\nGilles Simon [15] – Jurgen Melzer<\/p>\n

Richard Gasquet [11] – Qualifier
\nLleyton Hewitt [WC] – Radek Stepanek
\nKevin Anderson – Jarkko Nieminen
\nJohn Isner [8] – Bye<\/p>\n

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [5] – Bye
\nBenoit Paire – Qualifier
\nMarcos Baghdatis – Fabio Fognini
\nMilos Raonic [12] – Qualifier<\/p>\n

Kei Nishikori [14] – Wu Di [WC]
\nSam Querrey – Zhe Li [WC]
\nAndreas Seppi – Qualifier
\nTomas Berdych [4] – Bye<\/p>\n

Janko Tipsarevic [6] – Bye
\nMikhail Youzhny – Victor Troicki
\nTommy Robredo – Qualifier
\nNicolas Almagro [9] – Tommy Haas<\/p>\n

Philipp Kohlschreiber [16] – Ryan Harrison
\nFeliciano Lopez – Alejandro Falla
\nGrigor Dimitrov – Pablo Andujar
\nNovak Djokovic [2]<\/strong> – Bye<\/p>\n

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

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