{"id":160746,"date":"2022-12-12T10:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T09:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=160746"},"modified":"2022-12-20T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:18:29","slug":"novak-to-warm-up-for-adelaide-and-melbourne-at-wtl-exhibition-event-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-to-warm-up-for-adelaide-and-melbourne-at-wtl-exhibition-event-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak to warm up for Adelaide and Melbourne at WTL exho in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak will play in the exhibition tournament \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtennisleague.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Tennis League<\/a>\u201d in Dubai from 19 to 24 December, where he will team up with Grigor Dimitrov, Aryna Sabalenka and Paula Badosa for The Falcons team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each session will feature a men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles match, as well as a mixed doubles showdown.<\/p>\n<p>18 players in four teams will compete round-robin format for a place in the final on December 24.<\/p>\n<p>The four teams are: The Kites, The Hawks, The Falcons, The Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule of Novak\u2019s matches:<br \/>\nDecember 20: <strong>Novak Djokovic vs Alexander Zverev (Germany)<\/strong><br \/>\nDecember 21: <strong>Novak Djokovic vs Nick Kyrgios (Australia)<\/strong><br \/>\nDecember 23: <strong>Novak Djokovic vs Felix Auger-Aliassime (Canada)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis new event is exciting, there\u2019s no doubt about it,\u201d<\/strong> said Djokovic. <strong>&#8220;I absolutely love playing in Dubai, I\u2019ve had a lot of success there over the years and really enjoy the fans. This is something different, and it\u2019s going to be great being a part of it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak will make his return to Australian soil in Adelaide (ATP 250). <\/strong>Four of the world\u2019s top 10 players will contest the <a href=\"https:\/\/adelaideinternational.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adelaide International 1<\/a> at The Drive from 1 to 8 January, 2023. In 2007, the best Serbian tennis player beat Australian Chris Guccione 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-4 to win the Adelaide International tennis tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first Grand Slam event in 2023 will take place in Melbourne from January 16 to January 29.<\/strong> Novak lifted the <a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Open<\/a> trophy for an unprecedented ninth time in 2021, following a 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Daniil Medvedev in the final. He missed the 2022 edition due to the COVID-19-related Australian border restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 21-time Grand Slam champion will close the year at the inaugural edition of the exhibition event \u201cWorld Tennis League&#8221; in Dubai, from 19 to 24 December. He will play for The Falcons together with Grigor Dimitrov, Aryna Sabalenka and Paula Badosa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":160668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013173,101011992,101013305,101012197,101012333,101013307,101010469,101012051,101012199,101013306],"class_list":["post-160746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-adelaide-en","tag-australia","tag-australian-open-2023-en","tag-dubai-en","tag-exhibition-en","tag-falcons-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-melbourne","tag-uae-en","tag-world-tennis-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160746","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160746"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160762,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160746\/revisions\/160762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}