{"id":38138,"date":"2012-11-18T01:35:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T00:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=38138"},"modified":"2012-11-18T13:57:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T11:57:15","slug":"magic-evening-in-rio-featuring-nole-and-guga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/media\/magic-evening-in-rio-featuring-nole-and-guga\/","title":{"rendered":"A magical evening in Rio feat. Nole and Guga!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38093\" title=\"Nole i Guga priredili Riju nezaboravno ve\u010de!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_05.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_05-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rio_05-267x163.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reigning ATP World no.1 Novak Djokovic, and former no.1 and triple French Open champion, Gustavo Kuerten, played an exhibition at Maracanazinho Arena on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clay court specialist Guga won 7-6 (9), 7-5 in a match that was not just about tennis, but also fun, laugh and joy, dancing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Kuerten made a break in the seventh game and was serving for the set at 5-4, but Nole broke back to level at 5-all. Guga sealed a tie-breaker 11-9.<\/p>\n<p>The retired Brazilian star won the second set and match 7-5, breaking in the 12th game.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IgDdcR6TyLI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Guga is one of the most charismatic and loved players of this game and tonight he showed why,&#8221;<\/strong> Nole said in an on-court interview. <strong>&#8220;I hope you understand how much this means to me. I&#8217;ll come back to Brazil for sure. Obrigado, obrigado a todos!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 people enjoyed the exho full of humour and emotions.<\/p>\n<p>Players entertained fans by dancing and Novak put on a big wig to imitate Guga&#8217;s hairstyle.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vjgcczGvZb4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the match, the greatest tennis player in the history of Brazil repeated the gesture made after winning the third championship at Roland Garros and drew a heart in the center of the court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Another unforgettable moment in my life&#8230; thank you for your endless love,&#8221;<\/strong> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nole will play a football friendly before a Brazilian league match on Sunday (14.50 local time \/ 17.50 CET), when he will join his countryman Dejan Petkovic, who starred for several Brazilian clubs in the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>Former Brazilian superstars Zico, Romario and Bebeto are expected to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning ATP World no.1 and former no.1 and triple French Open champion played an exhibition match full of humour and emotions at Maracanazinho Arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":38093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[101012392,101012333,101010898,101010902],"class_list":["post-38138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-media","tag-brazil-en","tag-exhibition-en","tag-gustavo-kuerten-en","tag-rio-de-janeiroen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38138","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=38138"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38141,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38138\/revisions\/38141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}