{"id":44920,"date":"2013-04-16T13:27:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T12:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=44920"},"modified":"2013-04-16T23:02:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T22:02:55","slug":"monte-carlo-rolex-masters-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/monte-carlo-rolex-masters-draw-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Carlo: Nole vs Youzhny in R2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Objavljen<\/p>\n

The draw has been made for Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters<\/a>, the first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament on clay in 2013.<\/p>\n

Nole is seeded no.1 and has a first-round BYE. The 2013 Australian Open and Dubai champion will face world no.27 Russian Mikhail Youzhny in the second round on Wednesday.<\/strong>
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Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n

3rd round: John Isner (USA, WC), Juan Monaco (ARG, 14)
\nQuarter-finals: Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 5), Milos Raonic (CAN, 12)
\nSemi-finals: Tomas Berdych (CZE, 4), Richard Gasquet (FRA, 7)<\/p>\n

Andy Murray (GBR,2), Rafael Nadal (ESP, 3), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 6), Janko Tipsarevic (SRB, 8)\u2026are in the bottom half of the draw.<\/p>\n

The tournament begins on Sunday, April 14, and will be played until April 21.<\/p>\n

Last year Nole finished runner-up to the eight-time Monte-Carlo champion Rafael Nadal. He also lost to the Spaniard in 2009 final.<\/p>\n

This will be Novak\u2019s seventh appearance at the Masters event (15-6 record).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been practising for the past few days on the court and before that I was working on the rehabilitation, strengthening my ankle, and we\u2019re still in the process,”<\/strong> Novak said. “Things are looking good. It\u2019s better than I expected it to be.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Novak is seeded no.1 and has a first-round BYE. He will open his Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters campaign against Russian Mikhail Youzhny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":44918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011181],"class_list":["post-44920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-monte-carlo-rolex-masters-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44920","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=44920"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44957,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44920\/revisions\/44957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}