{"id":80131,"date":"2016-04-30T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T10:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=80131"},"modified":"2016-05-03T19:35:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:35:01","slug":"novak-leads-strong-field-in-madrid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-leads-strong-field-in-madrid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak leads strong field in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After two-year absence, Nole arrived in Madrid on Friday with a 28-2 record on the season. The world no.1 and 2011 champion will lead a star-studded field at La Caja M\u00e1gica complex from May 1 till May 8.<\/p>\n

The 2016 Mutua Madrid Open<\/a> singles draw has been announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Djokovic is a top seed and has a first-round BYE. He will open his campaign against world no.40 Borna Coric of Croatia (H2H 0-0).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

3rd round:<\/strong> Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 15), Feliciano Lopez (ESP)
\nQuarter-finals:<\/strong> Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 7), Milos Raonic (CAN, 11)
\nSemi-finals:<\/strong> Stan Wawrinka (SUI, 4), Kei Nishikori (JPN, 6), Gael Monfils (FRA, 13)<\/p>\n

Defending champion Andy Murray (GBR, 2), Rafael Nadal (ESP, 5), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 8), David Ferrer (ESP, 9) … are in the opposite side of the draw.<\/p>\n

You can download Nole May desktop calendar here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World no.1 arrived in Madrid with a 28-2 record on the season. The 2011 champion will open campaign against Borna Coric (CRO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":80114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,118,101012203,101011267,101012561],"class_list":["post-80131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-draw","tag-madrid-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-mutua-madrid-open-2016-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80131","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=80131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80161,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80131\/revisions\/80161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}