{"id":1114,"date":"2010-10-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:53:11","slug":"nole-aims-to-defend-title-in-basel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-aims-to-defend-title-in-basel\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole aims to defend title in Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/679.jpg> {nl}{nl}The end of the 2010 tennis season is getting closer. Nole will play in Basel, Paris, London and Belgrade. {nl}{nl}Four great events, four challenges and four opportunities to continue with great results after China. {nl} {nl}Novak has captured two titles in 2010, Dubai and Beijing; he&#8217;s won 52 out of 66 matches.{nl}{nl}12 months ago Nole made his debut at the ATP World Tour 500 tournament in Basel and lifted the winner\u2019s trophy. The world no. 3 is going back there, eager to defend his title and win his 3rd tournament of 2010. He defeated three-time defending champion Roger Federer in his hometown 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 in the finals last year. {nl} {nl}Djokovic also beat Andreas Beck, Jan Hernych, Stanislas Wawrinka and Radek Stepanek  en-route to his 15th career title. {nl} {nl}Novak will be second-seeded again, just like last year.  {nl} {nl}The Swiss Indoors Basel tournament will take place from 1 to 7 November for the prize money of \u20ac 1,225,000.{nl}{nl}The event is celebrating its 40th jubilee with an impressive line-up, including four men from the world\u2019s top ten: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Tomas Berdych and Andy Roddick. Jurgen Melzer, Marin Cilic Ivan Ljubicic, Marcos Baghdatis, Janko Tipsarevic, Viktor Troicki and many other players will also participate.{nl}{nl}The draw will be held on Saturday, October 30, at 16:00 CET.{nl}{nl}Until then, enjoy the highlights from the last year\u2019s final:{nl}{nl}<object width=\"525\" height=\"418\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IQ-h6gUpaQA?fs=1&#038;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IQ-h6gUpaQA?fs=1&#038;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"525\" height=\"418\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 months ago Nole made his debut at the ATP World Tour 500 tournament in Basel and lifted the winner\u2019s trophy. The world no. 3 is going back there, eager to defend his title and win his 3rd tournament of 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012032],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-basel-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28199,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/28199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}