{"id":171091,"date":"2026-10-17T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=171091"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:25:59","slug":"novak-is-returning-to-basel-after-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-is-returning-to-basel-after-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak is returning to Basel after 15 years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The greatest tennis player of all time, Novak Djokovic, is returning to the tennis court in Basel after a 15-year break!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian ace has accepted a wildcard from the organizers and will be the main star of the traditional ATP 500 tournament, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissindoorsbasel.ch\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swiss Indoors Basel<\/a>, which takes place indoors from October 26 to November 1.<\/p>\n<p>Novak has an exceptional history at this tournament, having participated three times so far with stellar results: winning the title in 2009 (when he defeated Roger Federer in the final), as well as reaching the final in 2010 and the semifinals in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>His return to Switzerland comes at an important part of the season, with clear ambitions and in the fight for new points and a spot at the season-ending tournament in Turin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serbian ace has accepted a wildcard from the organizers and will be the main star of the traditional ATP 500 tournament, the Swiss Indoors Basel, which takes place indoors from October 26 to November 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":171089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101013282,101013552,101013553,101012116],"class_list":["post-171091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-500-en-2","tag-basel","tag-swiss-indoors-basel","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171091","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=171091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171092,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171091\/revisions\/171092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}