{"id":89245,"date":"2017-05-26T13:09:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T11:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/?p=89245"},"modified":"2017-05-26T14:39:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T12:39:51","slug":"2017-roland-garros-draw-novak-vs-granollers-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/2017-roland-garros-draw-novak-vs-granollers-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Roland Garros draw: Novak vs Granollers in R1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Singles draw has been made for the second Grand Slam of the season, the Roland Garros<\/a>, taking place in Paris, from May 28 to June 11, 2017.<\/p>\n

The French Open first round matches will be played during the first three days of the competition. Main courts are Philippe Chatrier, Suzanne Lenglen and Court no.1.<\/p>\n

World no.2 and defending champion Novak Djokovic will open his campaign against Spaniard Marcel Granollers (H2H 3-0).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 12-time Major champion might face either Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) or Joao Sousa (POR) in the second round<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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

3rd round:<\/strong> Mischa Zverev (GER, 32)
\n4th round:<\/strong> Lucas Pouille (FRA, 16), Albert Ramos Vinolas (ESP, 19), Dusan Lajovic (SRB)
\nQuarter-finals:<\/strong> Dominic Thiem (AUT, 6), David Goffin (BEL, 10), Ivo Karlovic (CRO, 23), Steve Johnson (USA, 25)
\nSemi-finals:<\/strong> Rafael Nadal (ESP, 4), Milos Raonic (CAN, 5), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 11), Jack Sock (USA, 14), Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 17)…
\nFinals:<\/strong> Andy Murray (GBR, 1), Stan Wawrinka (SUI, 3), Marin Cilic (CRO, 7), Kei Nishikori (JPN, 8), Alexander Zverev (GER, 9), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA, 12), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 13), Gael Monfils (FRA, 15)…<\/p>\n

It will be Novak\u2019s 13th appearance on Parisian clay (55-11 record).<\/p>\n

Djokovic\u00a0won his first French Open title in 2016 and completed historic career Grand Slam. He outplayed Andy Murray in the epic final (3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Novak won his first French Open title in 2016 and completed career Grand Slam beating Andy Murray in the final (3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":89241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[118,101012251,101011211,101010469,101012260,101012745],"class_list":["post-89245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-draw","tag-france-en","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris-en","tag-roland-garros-2017-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89245","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=89245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89250,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89245\/revisions\/89250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}