{"id":56177,"date":"2014-03-04T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=56177"},"modified":"2014-03-04T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:43:09","slug":"fun-time-at-msg-as-nole-andy-celebrate-world-tennis-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/fun-time-at-msg-as-nole-andy-celebrate-world-tennis-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun time at MSG, as Nole, Andy celebrate World Tennis Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-56169\" alt=\"Svetski dan tenisa: Nole zabavio publiku i savladao Mareja\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_01.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_01.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_01-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_01-267x205.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_01-407x312.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nole and his friend and rival Andy Murray were among some of the world&#8217;s leading tennis stars and former greats who took part in celebration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldtennisday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Tennis Day<\/a> on March 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They played a singles exhibition match at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden. The Serbian world no.2 won the BNP Paribas Showdown 6-3, 7-6 (2).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was the first time playing at the Garden for both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It has been an amazing experience,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak said. <strong>&#8220;With the history in the world of sports and entertainment and music, it&#8217;s probably the most impressive and most important indoor facility in the world.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aUdxPZo40Og\" height=\"332\" width=\"590\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The World Tennis Day aims to promote tennis and increase participation among players around the globe. This year it was centred around three special events in three different time zones.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Agassi beat Pete Sampras in London, while Lleyton Hewitt defeated Tomas Berdych in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Novak is heading to Indian Wells where the first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the season, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnpparibasopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BNP Paribas Open<\/a>, begins on March 6.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-56171\" alt=\"Svetski dan tenisa: Nole zabavio publiku i savladao Mareja\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_03.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_03.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_03-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_03-267x199.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56172\" alt=\"Svetski dan tenisa: Nole zabavio publiku i savladao Mareja\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_04.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_04.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_04-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_04-267x179.jpg 267w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_04-264x176.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_04-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-56173\" alt=\"Svetski dan tenisa: Nole zabavio publiku i savladao Mareja\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_05.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_05.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_05-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/worldtennisday_05-267x186.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole and his friend and rival Andy Murray were among the world&#8217;s leading tennis stars and former greats who took part in celebration of the World Tennis Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":56169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[978,101011339,1100,101011340,101011866,101011390],"class_list":["post-56177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-andy-murray","tag-bnp-paribas-showdown-en","tag-exhibition","tag-madison-square-garden-en","tag-new-york","tag-world-tennis-day-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56177","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=56177"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56192,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56177\/revisions\/56192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}