{"id":67556,"date":"2015-03-23T18:16:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=67556"},"modified":"2015-03-28T20:26:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T19:26:22","slug":"miami-open-masters-draw-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/miami-open-masters-draw-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Open Masters draw is out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67553\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/miami2015_03.jpg\" alt=\"Auto Draft\" width=\"590\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/miami2015_03.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/miami2015_03-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/miami2015_03-267x159.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Singles draw has been made for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Open presented by Ita\u00fa<\/a>, the second ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in 2015, taking place at Crandon Park from March 25 to April 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 and four-time champion Novak Djokovic is a top seed and has a first round BYE. He will open his title defence against no.41-ranked Martin Klizan (SVK) who beat Italian Paolo Lorenzi 6-3, 6-4. It will be their first career meeting.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Belgrade native will play his second round match on Saturday, March 28, at 20.00 local time (Sunday at 01.00 CET).<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round<\/strong>: Gilles Muller (LUX, 30)<br \/>\n<strong>4th round<\/strong>: Tommy Robredo (ESP, 16), Pablo Cuevas (URU, 19), Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals<\/strong>: David Ferrer (ESP, 6), Gilles Simon (FRA, 12), Ivo Karlovic (CRO, 20)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals<\/strong>: Kei Nishikori (JPN, 4), Milos Raonic (CAN, 5), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 9), John Isner (USA, 22)&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Finals<\/strong>: Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2), Andy Murray (GBR, 3), Stan Wawrinka (SUI, 7), Tomas Berdych (CZE,8)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiopen.com\/~\/media\/miami-open\/images\/2015-miami-open---pictures\/mens-singles-draw.ashx?dmc=1&amp;ts=20150324t1403197510\" target=\"_blank\">FULL SINGLES MAIN DRAW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last year, Novak beat Spaniard Rafael Nadal in the final 6-3, 6-3, becoming just the second player to win the Indian Wells-Miami title double for a second time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic will be looking to add his fifth Miami crown to his collection of 21 Masters titles, following triumphs in 2007, 2011, 2012 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Serb, biding for his third title of the year, has a 30-5 event record in Miami, the site of his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 triumph.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6KJlnmbOsY\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak teamed up with fellow Serbian Janko Tipsarevic in the doubles competition. They lost their first round match to the Swedish\/Austrian duo of Robert Lindstedt and Jurgen Melzer 4-6, 6-3, 7-10. It was Janko&#8217;s first match since October 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak is a top seed and will open his title defence in the second round against Martin Klizan, on Saturday at 20:00 local time (Sunday at 01:00 CET).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":67553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,133,118,101012436,101011638],"class_list":["post-67556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-draw","tag-miami-en","tag-miami-open-2015-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67556","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=67556"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67691,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67556\/revisions\/67691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}