{"id":769,"date":"2009-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-21T17:45:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T16:45:55","slug":"novak-is-no-1-seed-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-is-no-1-seed-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak is no.1 seed in Dubai!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"arhiva\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/136.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>{nl}{nl}Novak Djokovic is first-seeded player in Dubai. The tournament will be played from February 23-28, the prize money is 2,233,000 $.{nl}{nl}After Nadal and Federer withdrew due to injury, the best Serbian player will have a chance to win new points. {nl}{nl}Djokovic\u2019s first round opponent will be the world number 125, Flavio Cipolla (Italy), and in round 2 he could meet Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) or Jan Hernych (CZE).{nl}{nl}His possible rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:{nl}{nl}Quarterfinals: Marin Cilic (CRO,5), Janko Tipsarevic (SRB), Julien Benneteau (FRA){nl}Semifinals: Gilles Simon (FRA,3), Ivo Karlovic (CRO,7).{nl}{nl}Andy Murray (GBR,2), David Ferrer (ESP,4), Marat Safin (RUS,8,WC), Igor Andreev (RUS), Viktor Troicki (SRB), Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)&#8230; are in the other half of the draw.{nl}{nl}Last year Novak reached the semifinals in Dubai. Andy Roddick beat him in straight sets.{nl}{nl}The American is the defending champion. He won the trophy defeating Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in the finals.{nl}{nl}The winner of this year\u2019s Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships will earn 383,000 $ and 500 ATP points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic is first-seeded player in Dubai. The tournament will be played from February 23-28, the prize money is 2,233,000 $.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,118,101012182,134],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-draw","tag-dubai-2009-en","tag-top-seed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","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=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27843,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/27843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}