{"id":122101,"date":"2019-06-25T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T08:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=122101"},"modified":"2019-06-25T17:46:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T15:46:27","slug":"novak-to-make-japan-open-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-to-make-japan-open-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak to make Japan Open debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six times in his career Novak opened his Asian hard-court swing in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The world no.1 has won the ATP 500 tournament on all six occasions he has entered, and has a 29-0 lifetime record in China Open matches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a break with tradition the Serbian star announced that this year he will make his debut at the <a href=\"https:\/\/rakutenopen.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The longest-running ATP Tour tournament in Asia, first held in 1972, is taking place in Tokyo from September 30 to October 6.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP 500 event is played at the Ariake Colosseum, an expansive tennis centre comprising 48 courts and a stadium with one of the first retractable roofs in tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest-running ATP Tour tournament in Asia, the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships &#8211; first held in 1972, is taking place in Tokyo from September 30 to October 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":122099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012179,604,101012210,101013071,101012361],"class_list":["post-122101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en","tag-debut","tag-japan-en","tag-rakuten-japan-open-en","tag-tokyo-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122101","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=122101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122102,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122101\/revisions\/122102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}