{"id":17457,"date":"2022-07-22T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T09:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=233247"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T09:34:05","slug":"official-novak-djokovic-to-join-federer-nadal-murray-to-make-it-big-4-at-laver-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/official-novak-djokovic-to-join-federer-nadal-murray-to-make-it-big-4-at-laver-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Novak Djokovic joins Federer, Nadal & Murray to make it Big 4 at Laver Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cbig 4,\u201d Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, and Novak Djokovic, will play together as Djokovic joins Team Europe. Novak Djokovic, the current Wimbledon champion, declared that he would represent Team Europe in the forthcoming Laver Cup in London. The \u201cbig 4,\u201d Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, and Novak Djokovic, will play together as Djokovic joins Team Europe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reigning Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic will join Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray in a dream Team Europe lineup at Laver Cup London 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PcYxfwgZYA\">https:\/\/t.co\/PcYxfwgZYA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GbfrEkXluK\">pic.twitter.com\/GbfrEkXluK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laver Cup (@LaverCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaverCup\/status\/1550360088564604930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic will return to the competition after 2018. He competed for Europe in the 2018 Laver Cup in Chicago alongside tennis legend Roger Federer. He expressed his eagerness to play for Team Europe in London\u2019s O2 Arena as he made the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The last 76 Grand Slam singles championships have been won by Djokovic, Nadal, Federer, and Murray; Nadal has won 22, Djokovic 21, Federer 20, and Murray has won three. The fact that one of these four players held the top spot every month from February 2004 to February 2022 speaks something about how brilliant they are. Daniil Medvedev reached the top spot in the ATP tennis player rankings in February 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Big 4 are in for London. Djokovic will join Nadal, Murray and Federer as teammates to defend the Laver Cup on Team Europe at The O2. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VoMFTBLsM3\">pic.twitter.com\/VoMFTBLsM3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laver Cup (@LaverCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaverCup\/status\/1550391014912696320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djokovic will return to the competition after 2018 when he competed for Europe in Laver Cup in Chicago alongside tennis legend Roger Federer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[326,3034,203,336,331],"class_list":["post-17457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-andy-murray","tag-laver-cup","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roger-federer"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}