{"id":55873,"date":"2014-03-03T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=55873"},"modified":"2014-03-03T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T10:24:59","slug":"novak-returns-to-the-desert-smash-in-support-of-cancer-for-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/novak-returns-to-the-desert-smash-in-support-of-cancer-for-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak returns to the Desert Smash in support of Cancer for College"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novak<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, March 4, Novak takes part in the 10th Annual Desert Smash<\/a> Pro-Celebrity Tennis exhibition at La Quinta Resort & Club (23.15 CET).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each year the Desert Smash brings together some of the world’s best professional tennis players and some of Hollywood\u2019s biggest stars.<\/p>\n

Leading into the BNP Paribas Open, an ATP World Tour Master 1000 tournament taking place from March 6-16 in Indian Wells, the event will benefit Cancer for College, a non-profit organization that provides college scholarships for cancer survivors.<\/p>\n

The Serbian world no.2 leads the tennis contingent along with the Bryan brothers, Fernando Verdasco, Sam Querrey, Ana Ivanovic, Daniela Hantuchova.. Will Ferrell will also host two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey along with actors Justin Bartha (The Hangover), Jeremy Piven (Entourage), Timothy Olyphant (Justified), Justin Chambers (Grey’s Anatomy), RedFoo (LMFAO) and more.<\/p>\n

The event will kick off at 2:15pm on La Quinta\u2019s Stadium Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 10th Annual Desert Smash hosted by Will Ferrell is where pro tennis and Hollywood collide to support Cancer for College on March 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":55867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101011384,101011383,101011385],"class_list":["post-55873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-desert-showdown-en","tag-desert-smash-en","tag-la-quinta-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55873","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=55873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56144,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55873\/revisions\/56144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}