{"id":100798,"date":"2021-07-15T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100798"},"modified":"2021-07-15T23:03:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T23:03:27","slug":"djokovic-makes-final-tokyo-olympics-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100798","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic makes final Tokyo Olympics decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/novak-djokovic\" title=\"Novak Djokovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> is going to the Tokyo Olympics, keeping alive his chance for a &quot;Golden Slam.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, 34, posted on Twitter that he had booked his flight and was proud to represent Serbia at the Olympics. <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/wimbledon-2021-novak-djokovic-matteo-berrettini-final-result-grand-slams-roger-federer-rafael-nadal\/4c655aa1-8211-4888-8b61-ef1445166660\" title=\"After he won Wimbledon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">After he won Wimbledon<\/a> on Sunday for his <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/wimbledon-2021-final-live-results-novak-djokovic-v-matteo-berrettini-mens-final-scores-winner-updates-video-highlights\/96baabbd-7c13-4b6c-88e8-ba715ffcd085\" title=\"record-tying 20th career Grand Slam title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">record-tying 20th career Grand Slam title<\/a>, Djokovic said he didn&#x27;t know if he was going to play in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>If the top-ranked Djokovic wins gold in men&#x27;s singles and at the U.S. Open, he would be the first male tennis player to complete a &quot;Golden Slam&quot; \u2014 all four Grand Slam tournaments and the Olympics in the same calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>Steffi Graf is the only woman to have done it, in 1988.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"69fc85fb-6f05-460d-a496-4018e016586b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/69fc85fb-6f05-460d-a496-4018e016586b\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am very proud to pack for Tokyo and join our national team in the fight for the brightest medals on the Olympic arenas,&quot; Djokovic wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For me, the game for Serbia has always been a special joy and motivation and I will do my best to make us all happy! Let&#x27;s go.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>While Djokovic is headed for Tokyo, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem and Nick Kyrgios are among the top men&#x27;s players who won&#x27;t be competing in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Novak Djokovic is going to the Tokyo Olympics, keeping alive his chance for a &quot;Golden Slam.&quot; Djokovic, 34, posted on Twitter that he had booked <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100798\" title=\"Djokovic makes final Tokyo Olympics decision\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100800,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100798\/revisions\/100800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}