{"id":947,"date":"2010-01-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:57:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:57:37","slug":"novak-back-in-action-in-kooyong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-back-in-action-in-kooyong\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak back in action in Kooyong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/\/383.jpg> {nl}{nl}The best Serbian tennis player will start his eighth professional season on January 13, 2010 at the exhibition tournament in Kooyong, a suburb in Melbourne.{nl}{nl}Novak is making his first Kooyong appearance. The 22-year-old is the highest ranked player in the field. He will be joined by Juan Martin del Potro, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Fernando Verdasco, Robin Soderling, Fernando Gonzalez and Tommy Haas.{nl}{nl}The 22nd \u201cAAMI Classic\u201d at Kooyong will traditionally last four days (January 13-16). Eighth spot is being kept for defending champion Roger Federer. World no.1 has not yet decided on his Australian Open preparation.{nl}{nl}Andy Roddick, Andre Agassi and Michael Chang have all won the tournament three times.{nl}{nl}The draw will be available on Tuesday, 12th January.{nl}{nl}It\u2019s a warm-up event for next year\u2019s Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season, which begins on Monday, January 18, at Melbourne Park.{nl}{nl}Novak\u2019s tournament calendar for the first five months of 2010:{nl}{nl}13.01. <b>Kooyong, Australia <\/b>(exhibition tournament) {nl}18.01. <b>Melbourne, Australia <\/b>(Grand Slam) {nl}09.02. <b>Rotterdam, Netherlands <\/b>(ATP 500) {nl}23.02. <b>Dubai, UAE <\/b>(ATP 500) {nl}02.03. <b>Belgrade, Serbia <\/b>(Davis Cup) {nl}09.03. <b>Indian Wells, USA <\/b>(ATP 1000) {nl}23.03. <b>Miami, USA <\/b>(ATP 1000) {nl}13.04. <b>Monte Carlo <\/b>(ATP 1000) {nl}27.04. <b>Rome, Italy<\/b> (ATP 1000) {nl}04.05. <b>Belgrade, Serbia <\/b>(ATP 250) {nl}11.05. <b>Madrid, Spain <\/b>(ATP 1000) {nl}25.05. <b>Paris, France <\/b>(Grand Slam)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best Serbian tennis player will start his eighth professional season on January 13, 2010 at the exhibition tournament in Kooyong, a suburb in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101011999],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-exhibition-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28331,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/28331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}