{"id":49803,"date":"2013-08-12T19:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=49803"},"modified":"2014-08-09T01:55:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T23:55:09","slug":"cincinnati-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/cincinnati-draw-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Masters draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49800\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cincinnati_11_reuters.jpg\" alt=\"Novak se bori za istoriju u Sinsinatiju\" width=\"590\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cincinnati_11_reuters.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cincinnati_11_reuters-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cincinnati_11_reuters-267x182.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Singles draw for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincytennis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Western &amp; Southern Open<\/a>, the seventh ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the season, was made on Friday. The tournament begins on Sunday, August 11.<\/p>\n<p>Nole is no.1 seed and has a first round BYE. This will be his ninth appearance in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Serbian world no.1 will face Argentina&#8217;s Juan Monaco (32) in the second round.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p>3rd round: Gilles Simon (FRA, 15), Vasek Pospisil (CAN, SE)<br \/>\nQuarter-finals: Richard Gasquet (FRA, 8), Milos Raonic (CAN, 12), John Isner (USA)<br \/>\nSemi-finals: David Ferrer (ESP, 3), Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 7)<\/p>\n<p>Andy Murray (GBR, 2),\u00a0 Rafael Nadal (ESP, 4), Roger Federer (SUI, 5), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 6)\u2026 are in the other half of the draw.<\/p>\n<p>Novak has a shot at tennis history next week, when he attempts to complete a sweep of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Should he win the Western &amp; Southern Open for the first time, he would become the first singles player to win all of the ATP World Tour&#8217;s nine premier events.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RDgDZupoPwU\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Belgrade native has finished runner-up at Cincinnati on four occasions, in 2008 (l. to Murray), 2009 (l. to Federer), 2011 (l. to Murray) and 2012 (l. to Federer).<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole will open his Western &#038; Southern Open campaign against world no.32, Argentine Juan Monaco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011266,101011267,101011202,101012292,101012451],"class_list":["post-49803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-cincinnati-2013-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-masters-en","tag-usa-en","tag-western-southern-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49803","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=49803"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60780,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49803\/revisions\/60780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}