{"id":759,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/australian-open-draw-is-revealed-novak-in-federers-half\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:54:20","slug":"australian-open-draw-is-revealed-novak-in-federers-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/australian-open-draw-is-revealed-novak-in-federers-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open draw is revealed! Novak in Federer&#8217;s half!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/\/123.jpg>{nl}{nl}The first Grand Slam tournament in 2009 begins in Melbourne on Monday, January 19th and will be held til February 1st.{nl}{nl}128 players will be fighting for two weeks for the Australian Open title and 2000 ATP points. The winner will get 2 million euros. {nl}{nl}Last year Novak Djokovic lifted the trophy for the first time in his career, beating Roger Federer in the semifinals (7:5, 6:3, 7:6), and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the finals (4:6, 6:4, 6:3, 7:6 ).{nl}{nl}The best Serbian player and the third seed of the tournament will start his title defence against a qualifier.{nl}{nl}In the second round Djokovic will play against the winner of the match between Daniel Marcos (BRA) and Jeremy Chardy (FRA).{nl}{nl}Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:{nl}{nl}3rd round: Paul-Henry Mathieu (FRA, 28), Jarkko Nieminen (FIN){nl}4th round: Robin Soderling (SWE, 16), Mardy Fish (USA, 23), Marcos Baghdatis (CYP){nl}Quarterfinals: Andy Roddick (USA, 7), David Nalbandian (ARG, 10){nl}Semifinals: Roger Federer (SUI, 2), Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG, 8), David Ferrer (ESP, 11), Marat Safin (RUS, 26){nl}{nl}Rafael Nadal (ESP, 1), Andy Murray (GBR, 4), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 5), Fernando Gonzalez (CHI, 13), Richard Gasquet (FRA, 24)&#8230; are in the other half of the draw.{nl}{nl}Good luck Nole!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Grand Slam tournament in 2009 begins in Melbourne on Monday, January 19th and will be held til February 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010219,118,101011740],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2009-en","tag-draw","tag-grand-slam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27878,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/27878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}