{"id":97689,"date":"2018-03-07T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=97689"},"modified":"2018-03-23T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:59:08","slug":"novak-set-for-indian-wells-comeback-faces-qualifier-in-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-set-for-indian-wells-comeback-faces-qualifier-in-r2\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak set for Indian Wells comeback, faces Taro Daniel in R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the season, the <a href=\"https:\/\/bnpparibasopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BNP Paribas Open<\/a>, will be played from March 8 to March 18 in Indian Wells.<\/p>\n<p>Five-time champion Novak Djokovic is no.10 seed and has a first-round BYE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the first event after medical intervention on his elbow, the Serbian star will open campaign against Japanese Taro Daniel (ATP #109).<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> Kei Nishikori (JPN, 22)<br \/>\n<strong>4th round:<\/strong> Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 6), David Ferrer (ESP, 29)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Marin Cilic (CRO, 2), John Isner (USA, 15)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Alexander Zverev (GER, 4), Jack Sock (USA, 8)<\/p>\n<p>Roger Federer (SUI, 1), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 3), Dominic Thiem (AUT, 5), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 12), Nick Kyrgios (AUS, 17) \u2026 are in the <strong>top half of the draw<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Novak fell to Nick Kyrgios in R4 (4-6, 6-7).<\/p>\n<p>This will be Nole\u2019s 13th appearance at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Belgrade native has won 30 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 trophies.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Ron Angle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole is no.10 seed and has a first-round BYE.  In the first event after medical intervention on his elbow, the Serbian star will open campaign against a qualifier in round two. He has won the BNP Paribas Open on five occasions (2008, 2011 and 2014-16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":97684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012371,101010506,101011610],"class_list":["post-97689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-bnp-paribas-open-en","tag-drawen","tag-indian-wells-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97689","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=97689"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97793,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97689\/revisions\/97793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}