{"id":43821,"date":"2013-03-18T18:51:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T17:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=43821"},"modified":"2013-03-23T01:39:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T00:39:24","slug":"sony-open-tennis-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/sony-open-tennis-draw-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Open Tennis draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43819\" alt=\"Majami: Novak startuje odbranu dvostruke krune u no\u0107i izme\u0111u petka i subote\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/miami_01.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/miami_01.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/miami_01-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/miami_01-267x167.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The draw has been made for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyopentennis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sony Open Tennis<\/a> in Miami, the second ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in 2013, taking place from March 20-31.<\/p>\n<p>The two-week combined event features the top men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tennis players.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 and two-time defending champion Novak Djokovic is the top seed and has a first-round BYE. He will open his bid to win a third consecutive title at Crandon Park against world no.64 Lukas Rosol (CZE) who beat no.67 Gilles Muller (LUX) in straight sets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Belgrade native will play his second round match on Friday, March 22, at 20.00 local time (Saturday at 01.00 CET).<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3rd round<\/span>: Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA), Somdev Devvarman (IND)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">4th round<\/span>: Tommy Haas (GER, 15), Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR, 19)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Quarter-finals<\/span>: Janko Tipsarevic (SRB, 7), Gilles Simon (FRA, 11), Florian Mayer (GER, 23), Kevin Anderson (RSA, 26)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Semi-finals<\/span>: David Ferrer (ESP, 3), Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 5), Kei Nishikori (JPN, 13)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Finals<\/span>: Andy Murray (GBR, 2), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 4), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 6), Richard Gasquet (FRA, 8), Milos Raonic (CAN, 14), John Isner (USA, 20)<\/p>\n<p><strong>In last year&#8217;s final, Novak beat Andy Murray 6-1, 7-6(4) to win the championship for the third time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8cmBu49gXNw\" height=\"332\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, who will be looking to add his fourth Sony Open crown to his collection of 13 Masters titles, has a 24-4 record in Miami, the site of his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 triumph in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian tennis star will aim to claim his third trophy in 2013, following victories at the Australian Open (d. Murray) and the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships (d. Berdych).<\/p>\n<p>After repeating the 2012 result in Indian Wells last week by reaching the last four, Nole continues to dominate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Rankings\/Singles.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">ATP rankings<\/a> with 13,280 points, followed by Roger Federer (8,715) and Andy Murray (8,350).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak is the top seed and has a first-round BYE. He will open his bid to win a third consecutive title at Crandon Park against world no.64 Czech Lukas Rosol or no.67 Gilles Muller of Luxembourg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":43819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,133,101011163,101012434],"class_list":["post-43821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-miami-2013en","tag-sony-open-tennis-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43821","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=43821"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43985,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43821\/revisions\/43985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}