{"id":485621,"date":"2024-07-25T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485621"},"modified":"2024-07-25T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:30:14","slug":"djokovic-could-face-nadal-in-2nd-round-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-could-face-nadal-in-2nd-round-at-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic could face Nadal in 2nd round at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top-seeded Novak Djokovic could play against his longtime rival Rafa Nadal in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round of the Paris Olympic tennis competition on clay.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic could face each other in the Olympics \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>The pair haven&#39;t played against each other in over two years.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BBCOlympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Paris2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ra3a4tbjb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0ra3a4tbjb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1816421982134497623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian was drawn today vs. Australian Matthew Ebden, and Rafa will play against Hungarian Marton Fucsovics, with the winners of those clashes playing in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard (38) won a record 14 of his 22 Grand Slams at the Roland-Garros. Nadal won gold in singles in Beijing in 2008 and in doubles with Marc Lopez at Rio de Janeiro 8 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Roland-Garros champ Carlos Alcaraz faces Lebanese player Hady Habib.<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked Polish Iga Swiatek will play Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu in the 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round of the women&#8217;s draw, with 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-seeded Coco Gauff from the USA playing against Ajla Tomljanovi\u0107 from Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Nole and Iga have never won gold medal at the Olympics. Djokovic only Olympic medal was bronze at Beijing where Rafael won his only gold medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-seeded Novak Djokovic could play against his longtime rival Rafa Nadal in the 2nd round of the Paris Olympic tennis competition on clay. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485622,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,16740,17409,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18357,17855,18071,767],"acf":{"announce":"Novak and Rafael could meet in the 2nd round in Paris.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485623,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485621\/revisions\/485623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485621"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485621"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}