{"id":1409,"date":"2012-01-05T12:01:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:13:08","slug":"defending-champion-arrives-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/defending-champion-arrives-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion arrives in Melbourne!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/872j.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photos: www.australianopen.com<\/font>{nl}{nl}Nole arrived in Melbourne, where the first Grand Slam of the season &#8211; Australian Open will take place from January 16 to 29 at Melbourne Park.{nl}{nl}The 2008 and 2011 Australian Open champion arrived at the scene of his first Grand Slam triumph on Thursday afternoon. His first gesture: placing a kiss on the blue Plexicushion before warming up for a practice session. {nl}{nl}The world no.1 hit with two of Australia&#8217;s best juniors: Maverick Banes and Andrew Harris.{nl}{nl}<img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/872k.jpg> {nl}{nl}Fresh from winning the exhibition event at Abu Dhabi last week, Nole was in a playful mood.{nl}{nl}The 24-year-old Serbian star starts 2012 a favourite to claim his third Australian Open title, having climbed to the top of the rankings  with a mind-blowing streak that saw him capture the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open titles. {nl}{nl}<b>\u201cI think the crucial couple of weeks is now, for me to prepare for Australia. We\u2019ll see. It\u2019s a long year and a difficult task, but I\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/b>{nl}{nl}<a href=\"http:\/\/www.novakdjokovic.rs\/photo.php?jezik=2&#038;id=200\"><font color=\"red\"> Photo Gallery&#8230; <\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole arrived in Melbourne, where the first Grand Slam of the season &#8211; Australian Open will take place from January 16 to 29 at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010274],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2012-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","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=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27012,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/27012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}