{"id":99367,"date":"2018-04-21T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=99367"},"modified":"2018-04-24T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T12:50:34","slug":"novak-awarded-wildcard-into-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-awarded-wildcard-into-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak awarded wildcard into Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former world no.1 Novak Djokovic has accepted a wild card into next week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcelonaopenbancsabadell.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell<\/a>.<\/strong> It will be the Serbian\u2019s first appearance at the ATP World Tour 500 event since 2006, when he fell to Daniel Gimeno-Traver in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Belgrade native is no.6 seed and has a first round BYE. <strong>He will open campaign agaist Martin Klizan (Slovakia, qualifier), ATP no.140.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s potential rivals in the later stages of the tournament are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd round:<\/strong> Feliciano Lopez (ESP, 12), Dusan Lajovic (SRB)<br \/>\n<strong>Quarter-finals:<\/strong> Rafael Nadal (ESP, 1), Kei Nishikori (JNP, 14)<br \/>\n<strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong> David Goffin (BEL, 4), Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP, 8), Hyeon Chung (KOR, 9)&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Final:<\/strong> Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 2), Dominic Thiem (AUT, 3), Pablo Careno Busta (ESP, 5)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Trofeo Conde de Godo (April 23-April 29) has been staged at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona-1899, the oldest Spanish tennis club, since 1953.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: ATP World Tour<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world no.1 Novak Djokovic has accepted a wild card into next week\u2019s Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. It will be the Serbian\u2019s first appearance at the ATP World Tour 500 event since 2006. The 30-year-old Belgrade native is no.6 seed and has a first round BYE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":99364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,101012974,101012975,118,101012235],"class_list":["post-99367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-barcelona-en","tag-barcelona-open-banc-sabadell-en","tag-draw","tag-spain-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99367","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=99367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99473,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99367\/revisions\/99473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}