{"id":76951,"date":"2016-04-30T13:24:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T12:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/?p=52955"},"modified":"2016-04-30T13:24:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T12:24:26","slug":"52955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/52955\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of the ATP main draw at the Mutua Madrid Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The route has been mapped and excitement is guaranteed. On Saturday the draw for the men\u2019s tournament at the Mutua Madrid Open was held at the SetBall.radio stand and the path to glory next Sunday was laid out for the players. Tournament director Manolo Santana hosted the draw, accompanied by Secretary of State for Sport and chairman of the CSD Higher Sports Council, Miguel Cardenal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The top eight seeds receive a bye in the first round but several face tricky matches in the second. World number one Novak Djokovic will face either Spanish clay-court specialist Nicol\u00e1s Almagro or Croatian 19-year-old Borna Coric, the youngest player in the top 40 and dubbed \u201cmini-Djokovic\u201d due to the similarity in their playing styles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Second seed Andy Murray will open his title defence against either a qualifier or Canadian Vasek Pospisil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In the top half of the draw, Djokovic is projected to meet world number seven Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals, with the winner going on to a hypothetical semi-final against French Open champion Stan Wawrinka or Kei Nishikori.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">If the bottom half of the draw goes as seeded, the quarter-finals will pit Rafa Nadal against Roger Federer and Murray against Tomas Berdych.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">However, the road is long and there will be surprises along the way. Among the most mouth-watering first round ties are all-Spanish clashes, trips down memory lane and any number of unknown quantities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The \u201cArmada\u201d face tough tests in first round\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">With the exception of Nadal, the rest of the Spanish representatives at the Caja M\u00e1gica have demanding debuts.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Nicol\u00e1s Almagro vs. Borna Coric<br \/>\nLeonardo Mayer vs. Feliciano L\u00f3pez<br \/>\nQualifier vs. [15] Roberto Bautista Agut<br \/>\nAlbert Ramos-Vinolas vs. Jeremy Chardy<br \/>\nJuan M\u00f3naco vs. Fernando Verdasco<br \/>\nGuillermo Garcia-Lopez vs. [9] David Ferrer<br \/>\nPablo Carre\u00f1o Busta vs. Grigor Dimitrov<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The route has been mapped and excitement is guaranteed. On Saturday the draw for the men\u2019s tournament at the Mutua Madrid Open was held at the SetBall.radio stand and the path to glory next Sunday was laid out for the players. Tournament director Manolo Santana hosted the draw, accompanied by Secretary of State for Sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[41,15,17],"class_list":["post-76951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mutua-news","tag-atp-en","tag-caja-magica-en","tag-mutua-madrid-open-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}