{"id":778,"date":"2009-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:42:04","slug":"davis-cup-benidorm-nole-joined-the-team-of-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/davis-cup-benidorm-nole-joined-the-team-of-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup (Benidorm): Nole joined the team of Serbia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Sljaka\/144.jpg>{nl}{nl}Novak arrived in Belgrade on Sunday afternoon, and already on Monday he joined the rest of the team Serbia. The first round World Group tie between the champions Spain and Serbia will be played in Benidorm from March 6 til March 8, 2009.{nl}{nl}Viktor Troicki and Janko Tipsarevic arrived first. The doubles specialist Nenad Zimonjic joined the team on Sunday.{nl}{nl}Although the team of Spain is favoured to win, Serbia has its aces. Novak is the first among them.{nl}{nl}\u201cThe triumph in Dubai finals gave me wings, especially because I defeated Spaniard David Ferrer.\u201d{nl}{nl}\u201cThat can be psychological advantage ahead of  the Davis Cup. But it\u2019s the only team competition in men\u2019s tennis, and there are many factors that can decide the winner. It\u2019s hard to predict anything, especially because we\u2019re playing in Spain in front of their home crowd, where at least 15,000 spectators will support them. For that reason I think David (Ferrer) would be the slight favorite in our potential new match\u201d &#8211; said Novak for \u201cSportski Zurnal\u201d.{nl}{nl}The tie in Benidorm, Spain will be played on clay, the surface that suits our opponents most.{nl}{nl}\u201cThat surface is not in my favor, but that\u2019s sport. It\u2019s a special feeling representing your own country, and you can\u2019t choose under which circumstances that would be\u201d &#8211; added the best Serbian tennis player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak arrived in Belgrade on Sunday afternoon, and already on Monday he joined the rest of the team Serbia. The first round World Group tie between the champions Spain and Serbia will be played in Benidorm from March 6 til March 8, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010212],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-davis-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28485,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/28485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}