{"id":170375,"date":"2026-04-21T12:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=170375"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:44:56","slug":"novak-in-a-new-role-hosting-the-laureus-world-sports-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/novak-in-a-new-role-hosting-the-laureus-world-sports-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak in a new role &#8211; Hosting the Laureus World Sports Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak was one of the hosts of the Laureus World Sports Awards held on Monday evening in Madrid, stepping into a role quite different from the one the sporting public is used to seeing him in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian tennis star co-hosted the ceremony alongside Eileen Gu, and as a five-time winner of the World Sportsman of the Year award, he is very familiar with this prestigious stage.<\/p>\n<p>Novak noted that this was a new experience for him, but one he truly enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is one of my favorite events, and this year I\u2019m hosting it. It\u2019s a completely new role for me. There were a few nerves, but it\u2019s exciting &#8211; I saw many familiar faces and I really looked forward to that,&#8221;<\/em> Novak said.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony in Madrid gathered numerous stars from the world of sport, with the hosting duo of Djokovic and Gu leaving a particularly strong impression and adding extra shine to this prestigious event.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak was one of the hosts of the Laureus World Sports Awards held on Monday evening in Madrid, stepping into a role quite different from the one the sporting public is used to seeing him in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":170373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101013521,101013047,101013327,101011792],"class_list":["post-170375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-laureus-en-2","tag-laureus-awards","tag-madrid-en-2","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170375","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=170375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170376,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170375\/revisions\/170376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}