{"id":1413,"date":"2012-01-14T10:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T09:13:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-17T14:12:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:12:52","slug":"nole-optimistic-about-2012-season-olympics-among-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/nole-optimistic-about-2012-season-olympics-among-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole optimistic about 2012 season, Olympics among priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/872nj.jpg> {nl}<font color=\"grey\">Photos: www.australianopen.com<\/font>{nl}{nl}An exhibition match as part of the Kids Tennis Day ahead of the Australian Open has taken place at Melbourne Park today.{nl}{nl}Thousands of youngsters brimming with excitement queued up early this morning to take part in a unique experience, to meet their favourite tennis players and have a hit on the famous Melbourne Park courts.{nl}{nl}Nole, Rafa, Sam Stosur, Kim Clijsters, Maria Sharapova&#8230;entertained the crowd, the kids were having a great time, it was a great way to promote the sport.{nl}{nl}The world no.1 shared his goals at the press conference after the exhibition. {nl}{nl}<img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/872n.jpg> {nl}{nl}The 24-year-old Belgrade native is keen to repeat triumphant year and expects another top tennis season.{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cI think everything is possible.  Obviously 2011 has been the best year so far in my career.  It&#8217;s going to be very difficult to repeat what I have done. But, look, I&#8217;ve done it once.  Why not twice?  Why not staying optimistic and positive about the whole season? \u201c<\/b>{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cEvery single tournament I won last year gave me a lot of confidence. Like everything in life, in tennis as well, you need to have a high confidence level.  When you&#8217;re playing on it, it feels like nothing can stop you.\u201d<\/b>{nl}{nl}Mubadala World Tennis Championship tournament in UAE was a good warm-up for the new season and it showed that Nole is fresh and hungry to win as he has been throughout the 2011.{nl}{nl}In the off season, the Serbian star had two weeks of the real rest, without racquet, without any physical involvement.{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cIt came at the right time really.  I needed it more than anything at that stage.  I had time to reflect on what I have achieved in 2011.\u201d{nl}{nl}\u201cIn two or three weeks&#8217; time that you have before the new season starts, you always try to specifically work on some shots, try to improve them by a percentage that is possible in that time. I don&#8217;t think that in general my game should be changed or that I should take any major changes in it.  I just think that I have to keep that consistency of performing well, work on some things, maybe to get more often to the net, work on my serve a little bit more.\u201d<\/b>{nl}{nl}The Olympics are one of his biggest priorities this year. Nole could play doubles as well.{nl}{nl}<b>\u201cI had that privilege and honor to represent my country in 2008 Beijing Olympics.  It was a remarkable experience, like no other. I&#8217;m very happy to be representing my country again and going back to the Wimbledon grass where I played grass in 2011, achieved one of my biggest goals.  So I hope that I can play well, perform well and bring a medal to Serbia.\u201d<\/b>{nl}{nl}<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vN9OAt7DnsQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition match as part of the Kids Tennis Day ahead of the Australian Open has taken place at Melbourne Park today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101010274],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-australian-open-2012-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","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=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27009,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/27009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}