{"id":977,"date":"2010-02-20T16:33:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T15:33:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:56:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:56:01","slug":"nole-is-no-2-seed-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-is-no-2-seed-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole is no.2 seed in Dubai!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/428.jpg> {nl}{nl}The draw has been made for the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, the ATP World Tour 500 event. {nl}{nl}World no.2 Novak Djokovic is the defending champion, he beat David Ferrer 7-5, 6-3 in last year\u2019s final.{nl}{nl}The tournament will be played from February 22-28, the prize money is $1,619,500.{nl}{nl}Djokovic\u2019s first round opponent will be world no.47 Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. They\u2019ve met twice, Nole won both matches.{nl}{nl}Novak could meet fellow Serbian Viktor Troicki or German wildcard Rainer Schuettler in the second round.{nl}{nl}His possible rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:{nl}{nl}<u>Quarterfinals<\/u>: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA,WC,5), Ivan Ljubicic (CRO){nl}<u>Semifinals<\/u>: Nikolay Davydenko (RUS,4), Gilles Simon (FRA,8), Marcos Baghdatis (CYP){nl}{nl}Andy Murray (GBR,3), Marin Cilic (CRO,6), Mikhail Youzhny (RUS,7)&#8230; are in the upper part of the draw, and Novak can\u2019t meet them before the finals.{nl}{nl}World no.1 Roger Federer has been forced to withdraw from the tournament due to a lung infection. Spaniard Tommy Robredo takes his place at the top of the draw.  {nl}{nl}The winner of this year\u2019s Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships will earn $383,000 and 500 ATP points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draw has been made for the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, the ATP World Tour 500 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010275],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-dubai-2010-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28321,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/28321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}