Draw for the 81st edition of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia has been made on Monday.
The ATP Masters 1000 tournament takes place from May 08 to May 19 at Foro Italico in Rome.
No.1 seed and six-time former champion Novak Djokovic has a first round BYE. He will open campaign in R2 against either Roman Safiullin (RUS) or a qualifier.
Novak’s potential rivals in the later stages of the competition are:
3rd round: Alejandro Tabilo (CHI, 29), Jakub Mensik (CZE)
4th round: Karen Khachanov (RUS, 16), Francisco Cerundolo (ARG, 20)
Quarter-finals: Casper Ruud (NOR, 5), Ben Shelton (USA, 12), Adrian Mannarino (FRA, 19), Gael Monfils (FRA)
Semi-finals: Alexander Zverev (GER, 3), Grigor Dimitrov (BUL, 8), Lorenzo Musetti (ITA), Fabio Fognini (ITA)
Final: Daniil Medvedev (RUS, 2), Andrey Rublev (RUS, 4), Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE, 6), Hubert Hurkacz (POL, 7), Holger Rune (DEN, 10)
Novak lifted the Rome Masters trophy in 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2020 and 2022.
Last year, he lost to Holger Rune in the quarter-final (2-6, 6-4, 2-6) .
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