{"id":37812,"date":"2012-11-14T22:46:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T21:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=37812"},"modified":"2012-11-15T15:30:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T13:30:37","slug":"nole-vajda-klizan-and-hrbaty-in-bratislava-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/nole-vajda-klizan-and-hrbaty-in-bratislava-spectacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole, Vajda, Klizan and Hrbaty in Bratislava spectacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37802\" title=\"Nole, Vajda, Kli\u017ean i Hrbati priredili Bratislavi spektakl\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_03.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_03-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_03-267x177.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_03-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_03-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2012 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals champion Novak Djokovic played the first of two exhibition events in his calendar this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nole arrived in Bratislava on Wednesday and held a press conference, then attended Kids Clinic at the National Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37803\" title=\"Nole, Vajda, Kli\u017ean i Hrbati priredili Bratislavi spektakl\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_01.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_01-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_01-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_01-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37804\" title=\"Nole, Vajda, Kli\u017ean i Hrbati priredili Bratislavi spektakl\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_02.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_02-267x178.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_02-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_02-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pgs3ecCHZcE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>World no.1 played an exhibition match with ATP Newcomer of the Year, the no.30-ranked Martin Klizan, at the AEGON Arena. The result was 7-5, 6-3 for Nole.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He then paired with his coach Marian Vajda in doubles against Martin Klizan and former world no.12, Dominik Hrbaty. The Serbian\/Slovakian duo won 7-5.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exho in the capital of Slovakia is a part of the fifth edition of the &#8220;Tennis Classic&#8221;. Djokovic\u00a0impersonated Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick much to the delight of the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Thank you all for coming. We wanted to play quality tennis, to entertain crowd, came up with some good shots, good impersonations. I hope you liked it,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said in an on-court interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u20ac25,800 was raised through the auction between matches to go to <a href=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovicfoundation.org\/\">Novak Djokovic Foundation<\/a> to help pre-school education programs in Serbia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37807\" title=\"Nole, Vajda, Kli\u017ean i Hrbati priredili Bratislavi spektakl\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_06.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_06-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_06-267x177.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_06-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bratislava_06-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Novak is heading to Rio de Janeiro tomorrow. The 25-year-old Belgrade native will play\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.djokovicnorio.com.br\/\">exhibition match<\/a> against retired champion, former world no.1 Gustavo Kuerten on Saturday, November 17, at Maracan\u00e3zinho Arena.<\/p>\n<p>He will meet the three-time French Open titlist to help inaugurate a tennis court in Rocinha.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian tennis star will also play a football friendly. On Sunday, November 18, he will join his countryman Dejan Petkovic, Zico, Romario, Bebeto, Cafu and other Brazilian superstars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBrazil is such a great and successful nation in football. It\u2019s the national sport. It\u2019s my first time going to Brazil, going to Rio de Janeiro. I\u2019m going to play with Guga in an exhibition event. Then we\u2019re going to have an opportunity to play in a big stadium with some big stars as Bebeto, Cafu and Zico. Hopefully all these great legends of the sport will be there. I love football. Played a couple times only on the big pitch. I\u2019m terrible, but I try to enjoy the moment and hopefully have fun,\u201d<\/strong> Nole said after winning the ATP World Tour Finals in London.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: AFP (Samuel Kubani), Ivan Kopcani, Novak Djokovic Official Website<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole beat Klizan in Bratislava exho 7-5, 6-3. He also won the doubles with his coach Marian Vajda against Klizan\/Hrbaty duo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":37802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[101010879,101010880,101010882,101010881],"class_list":["post-37812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-other-news","tag-aegon-arenaen","tag-bratislavaen","tag-kids-clinicen","tag-tennis-classicen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37812","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=37812"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37896,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37812\/revisions\/37896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}