May 2009 - ATP TOURNAMENT of NOVAK DJOKOVIĆ, Belgrade

Tennis admirers in Serbia will have the opportunity this spring, to see top tennis, since Belgrade has received the organization of the ATP tournament.

Serbia has confirmed its status as an emerging power in world tennis with Belgrade to host an ATP event from this season. The ATP Tour confirmed on Wednesday that the Serbia Open will take the place of Amersfoort on the schedule in May, with the event to be played outdoors on clay.
Belgrade gets ATP nod

Serbia has confirmed its status as an emerging power in world tennis with Belgrade to host an ATP event from this season.
The ATP Tour confirmed on Wednesday that the Serbia Open will take the place of Amersfoort on the schedule in May, with the event to be played outdoors on clay.
Current world No.3 Novak Djokovic, who along with Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic, has helped put Serbia on the tennis map in the past few years, is delighted that his home town will have its own ATP event.

"I am very excited that we are able to create an opportunity in Serbia to be a part of the ATP World Tour. My family, along with myself, is also very emotional about that. Tennis is a very popular sport in my country and we are happy that having a ATP World Tour 250 event from 2009 will help us show the world the beauty of my home town Belgrade and of Serbia," he said.

ATP Player Board Representative Ivan Ljubicic said that Serbia deserved its own ATP tournament.

"We are delighted to welcome Belgrade onto the 2009 ATP World Tour. The team involved in this new event have shown great passion and ambition in their plans to bring the ATP World Tour to Serbia and we all look forward to a fantastic week of world class tennis in May."