{"id":35570,"date":"2012-09-30T12:50:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T11:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=35570"},"modified":"2012-09-30T14:17:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T12:17:32","slug":"tennis-exho-and-gangnam-style-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/tennis-exho-and-gangnam-style-in-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis exho and &#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221; in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35564\" title=\"Teniski spektakl i &quot;Gangnam Style&quot; na Tajvanu\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taiwan_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taiwan_05.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taiwan_05-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taiwan_05-267x200.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.2 Novak Djokovic and no.12 Nicolas Almagro provided an amusing afternoon of tennis on Saturday in two exhibition matches full of laughter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The afternoon started with a super tie-breaker, in which Djokovic and Almagro teamed up with local young talents. Almagro and his partner, 14-year-old Lee Ho-chun, beat Novak and 12-year-old Tseng Chun-hsin 10-8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We&#8217;re very surprised at how they were hitting the ball,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said, praising the young players&#8217; potential.<\/p>\n<p>The light-hearted atmosphere at the National Taiwan Sport University in Linkou, New Taipei, was carried into a best-of-three singles match between the two tennis stars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nole sometimes challenged the chair umpire or screamed in dismay when his returns were called out&#8230; He won the match 7-6 (5), 6-4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almagro mimicked retired USA player Andy Roddick at Djokovic\u2019s request and the 25-year-old Serb, in return, impersonated world no.4 Spaniard Rafael Nadal.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-li8ILW6xbo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Novak said at the end of the match that it was nice to <strong>\u201cplay good tennis, but also to smile, have fun and do something different\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe don&#8217;t get to do that often,\u201d<\/strong> he said.<\/p>\n<p>At the request of the fans, Nole and Almagro also danced part of the &#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221; dance, made famous by South Korean rapper Psy, drawing rounds of applause and laughter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QA7cupOBZ8Y\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-35567\" title=\"Teniski spektakl i &quot;Gangnam Style&quot; na Tajvanu\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taiwan_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taiwan_06.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taiwan_06-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taiwan_06-267x368.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo: AP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole and Almagro provided an amusing afternoon of tennis on Saturday in two exhibition matches full of laughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101010755,101012333,101010763,101012334],"class_list":["post-35570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-almagro-en","tag-exhibition-en","tag-gangnam-style-en","tag-taiwan-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35570","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=35570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35580,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35570\/revisions\/35580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}