{"id":41712,"date":"2013-01-30T19:19:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=41712"},"modified":"2013-01-31T02:38:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T01:38:21","slug":"davis-cup-novak-arrives-in-charleroi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/davis-cup-novak-arrives-in-charleroi\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup: Novak arrives in Charleroi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41703\" title=\"Novak doputovao u \u0160erloa\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_00.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_00.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_00-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_00-267x329.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>World no.1 and four-time Australian Open champion has arrived in Charleroi, Belgium, where he will lead the Serbian team in attempt to win the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daviscup.com\/en\/home.aspx\">Davis Cup by BNP Paribas<\/a> first round tie \u00a0(1-3 February).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019ve just arrived and I&#8217;m still getting used to the time difference, and also to different weather conditions,\u201d<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>\u201dI\u2019m glad I\u2019m here with the team, I love the atmosphere when we are together. I am sorry Janko is not with us this time, I wish him a speedy recovery. Captain will decide the best tactics and who will play and when, <strong>I <strong>will give my best and I\u00a0<\/strong>believe in our victory<\/strong>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Upon his arrival at Kids&#8217; Day, Novak was welcomed by around 300 children who were chanting his name for 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>He took photos with many of them, signed autographs and did the first practice on clay at the Spiroudome venue (6,300 seats).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41704\" title=\"Novak doputovao u \u0160erloa\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_01.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_01-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_01-267x186.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41705\" title=\"Novak doputovao u \u0160erloa\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_02.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_02-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_02-267x179.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_02-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_02-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41706\" title=\"Novak doputovao u \u0160erloa\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_03.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_03-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/dc_belgium_03-267x171.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: TSS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.1 and four-time Australian Open champion has arrived in Charleroi, Belgium, today for the World Group first round tie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":41705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[101010724,101011077,101010723,101012266,101011076],"class_list":["post-41712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-tennis","tag-belgium","tag-charleroi","tag-davis-cup-2013en","tag-kids-day-en","tag-spiroudome-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41712","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=41712"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41725,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41712\/revisions\/41725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}