{"id":84533,"date":"2016-10-08T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=84533"},"modified":"2016-10-11T12:07:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T10:07:45","slug":"novak-leads-shanghai-rolex-masters-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-leads-shanghai-rolex-masters-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak leads Shanghai Rolex Masters field"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

Shanghai Rolex Masters<\/a> draw ceremony has been held on Saturday. World no.1 headlines the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event, taking place at Qi Zhong Tennis Center from October 9-16.<\/p>\n

Fifty six players are taking part. Eight seeds (1-8) got BYE in the first round.<\/p>\n

Novak, who won the tournament on three occasions (2012, 2013, 2015), is a top seed. He\u2019ll open quest for 31st Masters title in the second round against world no.43, Italian Fabio Fognini (7-0 H2H record).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

3rd round:<\/strong> Richard Gasquet (FRA, 14), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)
\nQuarter-finals: <\/strong>Tomas Berdych (CZE, 7), Nick Kyrgios (AUS, 12)
\nSemi-finals:<\/strong> Rafael Nadal (ESP, 4), Marin Cilic (CRO, 8), Jo-Wilfried-Tsonga (FRA, 9)
\nFinals:<\/strong> Andy Murray (GBR, 2), Stan Wawrinka (SUI, 3), Milos Raonic (CAN, 5), Gael Monfils (FRA, 6)<\/p>\n

Last year, Novak defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2, 6-4 in the final.<\/p>\n

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

Defending champion will open quest for his 31st Masters crown in R2 against Fabio Fognini (ITA #43).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":84529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,133,101010506,101011765,101012601],"class_list":["post-84533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-defending-champion","tag-drawen","tag-shanghai","tag-shanghai-rolex-masters-2016-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84533","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=84533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84549,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84533\/revisions\/84549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}