{"id":46350,"date":"2013-05-21T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T10:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=46350"},"modified":"2013-05-21T22:50:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T21:50:32","slug":"nole-given-top-seed-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-given-top-seed-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole seeded no.1 in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46339\" alt=\"U susret Rolan Garosu...\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rg2013_01.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rg2013_01.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rg2013_01-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rg2013_01-267x205.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rg2013_01-407x312.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Singles draw for the second Grand Slam tournament of the season, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Garros<\/a>, will be held on Friday, May 24.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>World no.1 and 2012 runner up, Novak Djokovic, tops the men\u2019s side of the draw, followed by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s final is the best result so far for Nole at the French Open (l.to Nadal 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 5-7).<\/p>\n<p>En route to his first final in Paris, Djokovic defeated Potito Starace, Blaz Kavcic, Nicolas Devilder, Andreas Seppi, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Roger Federer. He will defend 1200 ATP points in &#8220;The City of Light&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It will be Novak&#8217;s ninth appearance on Parisian clay (31-8 record). He finished as semifinalist three times (2007-08, 2011) and quarterfinalist twice (2006, 2010).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The six-time Major champion, who will turn 26 on Wednesday, May 22, has won three titles in 2013: The Australian Open, the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships and the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fhqwOCf9FrI\" height=\"332\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 and 2012 Roland Garros runner up tops the men\u2019s side of the draw, followed by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":46340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010469,101010827,101012446],"class_list":["post-46350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-parisen","tag-roland-garros-2013-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46350","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=46350"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46357,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46350\/revisions\/46357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}