{"id":78078,"date":"2016-02-20T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T09:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=78078"},"modified":"2016-02-21T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T13:06:27","slug":"atp-dubai-novak-vs-robredo-in-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/atp-dubai-novak-vs-robredo-in-round-1\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Dubai: Novak vs Robredo in Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Four-time former champion and world no.1 returns to action next week in Dubai where he won the ATP World Tour 500 tournament in 2009-11 and 2013. The event takes place at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre (February 22-27).<\/p>\n

Novak is a top seed. He will open his 2016 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships<\/a> campaign against world no.39, Spaniard Tommy Robredo (6-2 H2H).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Belgrade native could meet either Malek Jaziri (TUN) or Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) in the second round.<\/p>\n

His possible opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n

Quarter-finals: Feliciano Lopez (ESP, 6), Lukas Rosol (CZE)
\nSemi-finals: Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 4), Viktor Troicki (SRB, 5)
\nFinal: Stan Wawrinka (SUI, 2), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 3)<\/p>\n

Last year Novak lost to Roger Federer in the final (3-6, 5-7).<\/p>\n

The Serbian star is making his tenth appearance (34-5 record), aiming for his fifth crown.<\/p>\n

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

Novak is making his tenth appearance at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, aiming for his fifth crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,118,101012531,101012429],"class_list":["post-78078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-draw","tag-dubai-2016-en","tag-dubai-duty-free-tennis-championships-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78078","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=78078"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78110,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78078\/revisions\/78110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}