{"id":29023,"date":"2012-05-09T16:04:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=29023"},"modified":"2012-05-09T18:46:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T17:46:05","slug":"sampras-impressed-with-novak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/other-news\/sampras-impressed-with-novak\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampras impressed with Novak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pete Sampras\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SamprasUncovered.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In season 4, episode 19 of the ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Rio, 14-time Grand Slam champion Pete Sampras reveals to Justin Gimelstob the advice he gave Novak last July when the Serbian became world no.1.<\/p>\n<p>Former ATP world no.1 speaks about Novak\u2019s mental strength and admires him for being an \u201cincredible competitor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNovak\u2019s always had a big game, big serve\u2026 I feel like mentally he was a bit fragile, and now he\u2019s a rock.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhen you\u2019re 24, these next four, five years, until 28, 29, this is your prime. He\u2019s too good, he\u2019s a good mover, mentally he\u2019s figured it out, he\u2019s got the whole package.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h5zaZPe7kSw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ATP World Tour Uncovered Presented by Rio is a weekly lifestyle television show that provides fans with behind-the-scenes access to the most exciting tennis players and tournaments in 30-minute episodes.<\/p>\n<p>See the global television schedule <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Media\/Uncovered.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In season 4, episode 19 of the ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Rio, 14-time Grand Slam champion Pete Sampras reveals to Justin Gimelstob the advice he gave Novak last July when the Serbian became world no.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[101010413,101010414],"class_list":["post-29023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","tag-atp-world-tour-uncovered-en","tag-pete-sampras-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29023","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=29023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29027,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29023\/revisions\/29027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}