{"id":961,"date":"2010-01-15T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T09:27:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:42:11","slug":"australian-open-draw-revealed-novak-vs-gimeno-traver-in-r1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/australian-open-draw-revealed-novak-vs-gimeno-traver-in-r1\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open draw revealed! Novak vs Gimeno-Traver in R1!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"arhiva\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/404.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>{nl}{nl}The 2010 Australian Open draw has been revealed on Friday morning in Melbourne, with world no.3 and 2008 Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic placed in top-seeded Roger Federer&#8217;s half of the draw.{nl}{nl}<strong>Third-seeded Djokovic opens his campaign against world no.73 Daniel Gimeno-Traver.<\/strong> The Spaniard won their only match in Barcelona, in 2006.{nl}{nl}The 22-year-old Belgrade native will play against the winner of the match between Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) and Marinko Matosevic (AUS) in the second round.{nl}{nl}The earliest seed he could meet would be 32nd-seed, Frenchman Jeremy Chardy, in the 3rd round.{nl}{nl}Novak\u2019s possible opponents in the later stages of the tournament:{nl}{nl}<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">4th round:<\/span> Tommy Robredo (ESP,16), Mikhail Youzhny (RUS,20), Richard Gasquet (FRA){nl}<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Quarterfinals: <\/span>Robin Soderling (SWE,8), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA,10), Tommy Haas (GER,18), Janko Tipsarevic (SRB){nl}<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Semifinals:<\/span> Roger Federer (SUI,1), Nikolay Davydenko (RUS,6), Fernando Verdasco (ESP,9){nl}{nl}Defending champion Rafael Nadal (ESP,2) is in the other half of the draw, as well as Juan Martin del Potro (ARG,4), Andy Murray (GBR,5), Andy Roddick (USA,7), Fernando Gonzalez (CHI,11)&#8230;and Nole can&#8217;t meet them before the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">finals<\/span>.{nl}{nl}The first Grand Slam of the season begins on Monday, January 18, at Melbourne Park. 128 players will fight for the trophy, 2000 ATP points and 2 million dollars.{nl}{nl}<strong>Novak played one more match at the \u201cAAMI Classic\u201d in Kooyong on Saturday. It was his final warm-up for the Australian Open. The Serb lost to world no.291, young Australian hope Bernard Tomic in three sets, 4-6, 6-3, 5-7.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 Australian Open draw has been revealed on Friday morning in Melbourne, with world no.3 and 2008 Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic placed in top-seeded Roger Federer&#8217;s half of the draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012180],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2010-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","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=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26941,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/26941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}