{"id":60543,"date":"2014-08-01T23:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=60543"},"modified":"2014-08-07T19:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T17:00:33","slug":"rogers-cup-novak-vs-__-in-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rogers-cup-novak-vs-__-in-r2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Cup draw revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

World no.1 Novak Djokovic attended the official draw ceremony for 2014 Rogers Cup presented by National Bank<\/a> at Queen’s Park on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The sixth ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the season will be played from August 4 to August 10 in Toronto.<\/p>\n

Novak is a top seed and has a first round BYE. He will open campaign against Frenchman Gael Monfils (9-0 career H2H) who defeated Czech Radek Stepanek in straight sets.
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Nole\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n

3rd round<\/span>: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 13), Jeremy Chardy (FRA)
\nQuarter-finals<\/span>: Andy Murray (GBR, 8), Richard Gasquet (FRA, 12)
\nSemi-finals<\/span>: Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI, 3), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 7), Kevin Anderson (RSA)<\/p>\n

Roger Federer (SUI, 2), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 4), David Ferrer (ESP, 5), Milos Raonic (CAN, 6)\u2026 are placed on the opposite section of the draw.<\/p>\n

Novak is the three-time former champion (2007, 2011-2012). He is bidding to win the trophy for the fourth time and add it to his collection of 19 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crowns.<\/p>\n

Nole reached semis last year, where he fell to eventual titlist Rafael Nadal (4-6, 6-3, 5-7).<\/p>\n

The Spaniard pulled out of this year’s event due to wrist injury.<\/p>\n

You can download Nole August Desktop Wallpaper here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Novak is a top seed and has a first round BYE. He will open campaign against either Gael Monfils (FRA) or Radek Stepanek (CZE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":60536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012285,101011267,101011261,101011473],"class_list":["post-60543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-canada-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-rogers-cup-en","tag-toronto-2014-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60543","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=60543"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60729,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60543\/revisions\/60729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}