{"id":318,"date":"2014-01-10T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T10:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2014-01-10T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T10:25:14","slug":"nadal-face-bernard-tomic-australian-open-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Nadal to face Bernard tomic in Australian Open Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rafael-Nadal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-319 alignright\" alt=\"Rafael-Nadal\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rafael-Nadal-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rafael-Nadal-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rafael-Nadal-284x158.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rafael-Nadal-642x362.jpg 642w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rafael-Nadal-128x72.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Rafael-Nadal.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>World number one Rafael Nadal will play local hope Bernard Tomic in the first round of the Australian Open as he bids for a 14th Grand Slam title. The Spaniard faces a tough draw, with a potential fourth round clash with 16th-seeded Japanese Kei Nishikori before a possible quarterfinal with Argentine Juan Martin del Potro.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Novak Djokovic will play Slovakia&#8217;s Lukas Lacko in the first round as he bids for his fourth successive title at Melbourne Park, according to the draw released on Friday. The second seeded Serb has a relatively kind draw until the quarterfinals, where a likely clash against eighth seed Stanislas Wawrinka, who pushed him in a five-set marathon in last year&#8217;s tournament, looms.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Murray will play Japan&#8217;s Go Soeda in the first round but has been drawn in the same quarter as 17-times Grand Slam champion Roger Federer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Rafael Nadal will play local hope Bernard Tomic in the first round of the Australian Open as he bids for a 14th Grand Slam title. The Spaniard faces a tough draw, with a potential fourth round clash with 16th-seeded Japanese Kei Nishikori before a possible quarterfinal with Argentine Juan Martin del Potro. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}