{"id":87378,"date":"2017-02-26T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=87378"},"modified":"2017-03-01T02:33:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:33:32","slug":"atp-acapulco-nole-vs-klizan-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/atp-acapulco-nole-vs-klizan-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Acapulco: Novak vs Klizan in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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World no.2 Novak Djokovic has delighted his Latin American fans by announcing he will make his ATP debut in the region after accepting a wild card into the Abierto Mexicano Telcel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Serbian tennis ace joins a stellar field that also features Nadal, Cilic, Thiem, Goffin and del Potro.<\/p>\n

The main draw for the ATP World Tour 500 event has been made on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Novak is no.1 seed and will open his campaign against world no.65 Martin Klizan (SVK).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Belgrade native could meet either Juan Martin del Potro (ARG) or a qualifier in the second round.<\/p>\n

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

Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Nick Kyrgios (AUS, 6), Bernard Tomic (AUS)
\nSemi-finals:<\/strong> Dominic Thiem (AUT, 4), David Goffin (BEL, 5)
\nFinal:<\/strong> Rafael Nadal (ESP, 2), Marin Cilic (CRO, 3), John Isner (USA, 8)…<\/p>\n

Novak is competing in his third ATP World Tour event of the season, having opened the year by beating Andy Murray in the Doha final before suffering a surprise second-round loss at the Australian Open to Denis Istomin. He has not competed since scoring a victory over Karen Khachanov during Serbia\u2019s first-round Davis Cup win over Russia earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nole is no.1 seed and will open his Abierto Mexicano Telcel campaign against world no.65 Martin Klizan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":87376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012675,101012179,118,101012683],"class_list":["post-87378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-acapulco","tag-atp-500-en","tag-draw","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87378","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=87378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87393,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87378\/revisions\/87393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}