{"id":845,"date":"2009-06-07T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T17:33:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:33:48","slug":"novak-halle-has-an-exceptional-venue-with-a-great-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-halle-has-an-exceptional-venue-with-a-great-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak: Halle has an exceptional venue with a great atmosphere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/Trava\/228.jpg> {nl}{nl}The Gerry Weber Open tournament starts on June 8th in Halle, Germany (\u20ac750,000).{nl}{nl}The organisers of the ATP World Tour 250 event are happy that the best Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic is making his debut at the tournament.{nl}{nl}&#8221;We are delighted that Novak is playing in Halle. Since he came here on Wednesday he\u2019s been friendly and charismatic. What we\u2019ve seen so far, this is going to be a great week both for Novak and for the tournament.&#8221;{nl}{nl}Novak has only nice words for his first grass court tournament in 2009.{nl}{nl}&#8221;This is an exceptional venue with a great atmosphere,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I really like to play on grass as it is one of the quickest surfaces on the Tour. Every ball-change, every event happens really quickly on grass.&#8221;{nl}{nl}This maybe Novak\u2019s debut at the Gerry Weber Open tournament, but not his first time in Halle, where he trained three years ago.{nl}{nl}&#8221;I trained here for a few days before the tournament so I remember the first-class venue from back then&#8221;.{nl}{nl}In order to lift the trophy  Novak will have to win five matches. Five time champion and the Roland Garros winner Roger Federer is among the participants.{nl}{nl}&#8221;I obviously know how much Roger likes this tournament and how well he plays here, but I can and want to make life hard for him,&#8221; said Djokovic. &#8220;A victory for me here \u2013 now that would be fantastic.&#8221;{nl}{nl}Novak will play his doubles match tomorrow. Djokovic and his compatriot Viktor Troicki are playing against Austrian pair Julian Knowle\/Jurgen Melzer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gerry Weber Open tournament starts on June 8th in Halle, Germany (\u20ac750,000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011911],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-halle-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28427,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/28427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}