{"id":71889,"date":"2015-08-07T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=71889"},"modified":"2015-08-11T23:49:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T21:49:15","slug":"canada-masters-draw-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/canada-masters-draw-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal: Novak vs Bellucci in R2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Poznat<\/p>\n

Singles draw has been made for the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Montreal, the sixth Masters tournament of the year (August 10-16).<\/p>\n

After a month off, the Australian Open and Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic begins his North American summer hard court season in the second-largest city in Canada.<\/p>\n

The world no.1 is a top seed and has a first-round BYE. He will open his campaign against Thomaz Bellucci (3-0) on Tuesday about 18:15 local time (Wed. 00:15 CET).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n

3rd round:<\/strong> Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 14)
\nQuarter-finals:<\/strong> Tomas Berdych (CZE, 5), Kevin Anderson (RSA, 12)
\nSemi-finals:<\/strong> Stan Wawrinka (SUI, 3), Milos Raonic (CAN, 8), Richard Gasquet (FRA, 11), John Isner (USA, 16)…<\/p>\n

Andy Murray (GBR, 2), Kei Nishikori (JPN, 4), Marin Cilic (CRO, 6), Rafael Nadal (ESP, 7), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 10)… are in the bottom half of the draw.<\/p>\n

Last year Djokovic lost in R3 to eventual champion Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2-6, 2-6.<\/p>\n

This will be Novak\u2019s ninth appearance at the Rogers Cup<\/a>. He is bidding to win the trophy for the fourth time and add it to his collection of 24 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crowns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Belgrade native won the title on his 2007 debut and repeated the feat in 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n

In the doubles competition, Novak will team up with fellow Serb Janko Tipsarevic against Viktor Troicki (SRB) and Andreas Seppi (ITA).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Novak is a top seed and has a first round BYE. He will open campaign against Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":71886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012285,118,101011202,101012201,101011261],"class_list":["post-71889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-canada-en","tag-draw","tag-masters-en","tag-montreal-en","tag-rogers-cup-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71889","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=71889"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71979,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71889\/revisions\/71979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}