{"id":54481,"date":"2014-01-03T21:33:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T20:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=54481"},"modified":"2014-01-13T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T10:54:12","slug":"defending-champion-returns-to-center-court-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/defending-champion-returns-to-center-court-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion returns to Center Court in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Branilac titule se vratio na centralni teren Melburn Parka!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ausopen2013_02.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nole arrived in Melbourne, where the first Grand Slam of the season &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ausopen.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> &#8211; will take place from January 13 to 26, at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time champion (2008, 2011-2013) arrived at the scene of his first Grand Slam triumph. He made his first appearance at Rod Laver Arena, and practiced with Serbian talent and hope Filip Krajinovic.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh from winning the Mubadala WTC exhibition event at Abu Dhabi last week for the third successive year, Novak was in a great mood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;So many great memories from RLA! Fantastic feeling to practice on fresh surface. Love Melbourne. Hitting with Filip Krajinovic,&#8221;<\/strong> the world no.2 wrote on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09842LVmYJI\" height=\"332\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Branilac titule se vratio na centralni teren Melburn Parka!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ausopen2013_01.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54479\" alt=\"Branilac titule se vratio na centralni teren Melburn Parka!\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ausopen2013_03.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ausopen2013_03.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ausopen2013_03-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ausopen2013_03-267x142.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: Novak Djokovic, David Rosenberg<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole made his first appearance on center court, Rod Laver Arena, before the start of Australian Open 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012459,101012415],"class_list":["post-54481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2014-en","tag-melbourne-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54481","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=54481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54499,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54481\/revisions\/54499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}