{"id":22319,"date":"2014-08-20T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/djokovic-federer-seeded-1-2-at-u-s-open\/"},"modified":"2014-08-20T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T11:01:00","slug":"djokovic-federer-seeded-1-2-at-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/djokovic-federer-seeded-1-2-at-u-s-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic, Federer seeded 1-2 at U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former champion Novak Djokovic has been installed as the top seed, while five-time winner Roger Federer is seeded second at the U.S. Open, which will commence Monday in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The world No. 1 Djokovic is the reigning Wimbledon champ who captured his lone U.S. Open title in 2011. He was last year&#8217;s runner-up to Rafael Nadal and also posted runner-up finishes in New York in 2007, 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has appeared in the last four U.S. Open finals.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Djokovic is followed by last month&#8217;s Wimbledon runner-up Federer, Australian Open winner Stan Wawrinka, last week&#8217;s Cincinnati Masters runner-up David Ferrer and Canadian Milos Raonic.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Federer is seeded at the U.S. Open for the 14th consecutive year, which ties him with Ivan Lendl for the second-longest streak. Jimmy Connors holds the record with 18.<\/p>\n<p>Seeds 6-through-10 are former Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych, Grigor Dimitrov, 2012 U.S. Open champion and 2008 runner-up Andy Murray, former Australian Open runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Kei Nishikori.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 champion and two-time titlist Nadal pulled out of the Open on Monday due to a right wrist injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former champion Novak Djokovic has been installed as the top seed, while five-time winner Roger Federer is seeded second at the U.S. Open, which will commence Monday in New York. The world No. 1 Djokovic is the reigning Wimbledon champ who captured his lone U.S. Open title in 2011. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}