{"id":1192,"date":"2011-02-03T19:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:47:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:56:35","slug":"nole-targets-grass-court-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-targets-grass-court-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole targets grass court glory!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Trava\/820.jpg>{nl}{nl}Nole has set his sights on adding a first grass court title to his Australian Open crown after signing up to compete in the AEGON Championships which takes place at The Queen\u2019s Club in London, 6th-12th June.{nl}{nl}The World Number Three, who won his second Grand Slam title in Melbourne on Sunday, joins the World Number One Rafael Nadal in confirming his participation in the AEGON Championships.{nl}{nl}Novak and Nadal met in a classic final at The Queen\u2019s Club in 2008. The Serbian held service-breaks in both sets, but the Spaniard eventually prevailed 7-6, 7-5 before going on to win Wimbledon three weeks later.{nl}{nl}<b>&#8220;The AEGON Championships is one of the nicest tournaments around&#8221;<\/b>, said Novak, who won the doubles title in 2010 with partner Jonathan Erlich. <b>&#8220;The Queen\u2019s Club has got great grass courts, it\u2019s a great atmosphere with always a packed house of spectators, and you just feel good there. Rafa and I had an incredible match in the Queen\u2019s final in 2008 and it was the closest I ever got to a grass court title. Wimbledon is the most important tournament (of the year) for me, and I really want to do well both at Queen\u2019s and at Wimbledon this year.&#8221;<\/b>{nl}{nl}<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"525\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1QACPfNqQ48?hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole has set his sights on adding a first grass court title to his Australian Open crown after signing up to compete in the AEGON Championships which takes place at The Queen\u2019s Club in London, 6th-12th June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010220],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2011-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","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=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26950,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/26950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}