{"id":98107,"date":"2018-03-19T19:55:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=98107"},"modified":"2018-03-23T00:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T23:29:58","slug":"miami-open-masters-draw-is-out-novak-no-9-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/miami-open-masters-draw-is-out-novak-no-9-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Open Masters draw is out, Novak no.9 seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw has been made for the <a href=\"http:\/\/miamiopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Open presented by Ita\u00fa<\/a>, the second ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in 2018, taking place at Crandon Park from March 21 to April 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Six-time titlist Novak Djokovic is no.9 seed and has a first round BYE. He will open campaign against world no.47 Benoit Paire of France (1-0 H2H) on Friday.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential opponents in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> Filip Krajinovic (SRB, 22)<br \/>\n<strong>4th round:<\/strong> Juan Martin del Potro (ARG, 5), Kei Nishikori (JPN, 26)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 3), Diego Schwartzman (ARG, 13), Milos Raonic (CAN, 20)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> Marin Cilic (CRO, 2), David Goffin (BEL, 7), Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 12), John Isner (USA, 14), Hyeon Chung (KOR, 19)&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Finals:<\/strong> Roger Federer (SUI, 1), Alexander Zverev (GER, 4), Kevin Anderson (RSA, 6), Jack Sock (USA, 8), Tomas Berdych (CZE, 10), Sam Querrey (USA, 11)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Novak missed the 33rd edition of the event due to an elbow injury.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic was crowned Miami champion in 2007, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98263\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/miami2018_02_dubl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1341\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/miami2018_02_dubl.jpg 1341w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/miami2018_02_dubl-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/miami2018_02_dubl-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/miami2018_02_dubl-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/miami2018_02_dubl-290x165.jpg 290w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/miami2018_02_dubl-823x469.jpg 823w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/miami2018_02_dubl-267x152.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/miami2018_02_dubl-590x337.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/miami2018_02_dubl-620x354.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1341px) 100vw, 1341px\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Serbian duo of Novak Djokovic and Viktor Troicki fell to Croatian\/Austrian pairing of Nikola Mektic and Alexander Peya\u20096-4, 5-7, 3-10 in their opening round match of doubles competition.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singles draw has been made for the Miami Open presented by Ita\u00fa, the second ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in 2018, taking place at Crandon Park from March 21 to April 1. Six-time titlist Novak Djokovic is no.9 seed and has a first round BYE. He will open campaign against Benoit Paire (FRA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":98106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,118,101011202,101012436,101012698,101012292],"class_list":["post-98107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-draw","tag-masters-en","tag-miami-en","tag-miami-open-en","tag-usa-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98107","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=98107"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98266,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98107\/revisions\/98266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}