{"id":68963,"date":"2015-05-08T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=68963"},"modified":"2015-05-12T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T10:04:55","slug":"rome-masters-draw-is-out-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/rome-masters-draw-is-out-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome Masters: Novak vs Almagro in R2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Singles draw was made for the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia<\/a>, the fifth ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in 2015.<\/p>\n

Top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic will open his campaign in the second round on Tuesday against world no.174 Nicolas Almagro of Spain (3-0 H2H).
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Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n

3rd round<\/strong>: Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 14), Marcel Granollers (ESP)
\nQuarter-finals<\/strong>: Kei Nishikori (JPN, 5), Feliciano Lopez (ESP, 11), Nick Kyrgios (AUS)
\nSemi-finals<\/strong>: Andy Murray (GBR, 3), David Ferrer (ESP, 7), Marin Cilic (CRO, 9), Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga (FRA, 13)
\nFinals<\/strong>: Roger Federer (SUI, 2), Rafael Nadal (ESP, 4), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 6), Stan Wawrinka (SUI, 8), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 10)<\/p>\n

Novak conquered Rome in 2008, 2011 and 2014. Last year he beat Radek Stepanek, Philipp Kohlschreiber, David Ferrer, Milos Raonic and Rafael Nadal<\/a>, respectively.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last of three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events contested on clay takes place in the capital of Italy from May 10-17.<\/p>\n

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

Last year Nole lifted his third trophy in Rome recording victories over Radek Stepanek, Philipp Kohlschreiber, David Ferrer, Milos Raonic and Rafael Nadal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":68952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101011546,101010506,101012444,101011659],"class_list":["post-68963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion-en","tag-drawen","tag-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-en","tag-rome-2015-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68963","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=68963"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68995,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68963\/revisions\/68995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}