{"id":28424,"date":"2015-01-14T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/djokovic-gets-top-seed-at-aussie\/"},"modified":"2015-01-14T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:40:26","slug":"djokovic-gets-top-seed-at-aussie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/djokovic-gets-top-seed-at-aussie\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic gets top seed at Aussie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Four-time champion Novak Djokovic has been installed as the top seed at the Australian Open, which will begin Monday in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The world No. 1 and reigning Wimbledon champ Djokovic is followed by former top-ranked great and four-time Melbourne winner Roger Federer, former Aussie champ and French Open king Rafael Nadal, reigning titlist Stan Wawrinka and U.S. Open runner-up Kei Nishikori. Wawrinka stunned Nadal in last year&#8217;s Aussie final to capture his first-ever Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n<p>Seeds six through 10 are three-time runner-up Andy Murray, former Wimbledon finalist Tomas Berdych, Milos Raonic, former French Open runner-up David Ferrer, and Grigor Dimitrov.<\/p>\n<p>The lone seeded American is No. 19 John Isner.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 10 and U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic will skip Melbourne due to a right shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p>The draw will be revealed on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Four-time champion Novak Djokovic has been installed as the top seed at the Australian Open, which will begin Monday in Melbourne. The world No. 1 and reigning Wimbledon champ Djokovic is followed by former top-ranked great and four-time Melbourne winner Roger Federer, former Aussie champ and French Open king Rafael Nadal, [&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-28424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28424","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=28424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28426,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28424\/revisions\/28426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}