{"id":177280,"date":"2025-05-09T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=177280"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:37:44","slug":"nole-returns-to-the-court-djokovic-confirms-participation-in-geneva-tournament-just-before-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/nole-returns-to-the-court-djokovic-confirms-participation-in-geneva-tournament-just-before-roland-garros\/","title":{"rendered":"NOLE RETURNS TO THE COURT: Djokovic confirms participation in Geneva tournament just before Roland Garros!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Novak Djokovic will indeed play one tournament immediately before the start of the French Open in tennis, as he has accepted a wild card from the organizers of the Geneva Open (May 17 &#8211; 24), the host confirmed today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best tennis player of all time was eliminated early from the Masters in Madrid and then suddenly decided to skip the tournament of the same class in Rome. Now, however, he has decided to participate in the battle for the title and 250 ATP points in the aforementioned Swiss city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 <br><br>\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8 Novak Djokovic has taken a wildcard into the ATP 250 event in Geneva, which takes place the week before Roland Garros<br><br>\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ravSpS68qX\">https:\/\/t.co\/ravSpS68qX<\/a><br>\ud83d\udcf8 Florencia Tan Jun <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hITCahTnKc\">pic.twitter.com\/hITCahTnKc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Olly Tennis \ud83c\udfbe\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 (@Olly_Tennis_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olly_Tennis_\/status\/1920769550376694039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>This decision comes despite him spending the last few days on vacation in the United States, meaning he faces a long journey back to Europe and a battle with jet lag. All this with the very important Roland Garros just around the corner (May 25 &#8211; June 8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner of 24 Grand Slam trophies played in Geneva last year as well, reaching the semifinals where he was defeated in three sets by Tomas Machac. 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The best tennis player of all time was eliminated early from the Masters in Madrid and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":177281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[436,251,6464,91,113,252,5042,6122],"class_list":["post-177280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-novak-dokovic-3","tag-rolan-garos","tag-sport","tag-srbija","tag-tenis","tag-teniski-turnir","tag-zeneva-2","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177292,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177280\/revisions\/177292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}