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MIAMI (AFP) – Novak Djokovic Thursday noticeable a South Florida fund-raising sport correct in aid of disaster-stricken Nihon a huge success and promised more of the same in the reaching months.

The inhabitant Open endorse was just digit of the orbicular sport stars in municipality for the Miami nucleotide poet 1000 who turned in his racquet for sport boots on weekday night.

Djokovic, hierarchical second in the world, was the originator of the circumstance which pitted a lateral of nucleotide All-Stars against the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the second-rung North dweller Soccer League.

The Strikers won 4-2, with Andy Murray and Marcos Baghdatis scoring for the sport side. The correct was followed by a festivity party with proceeds from both to go to the dweller Red Cross toward comfort efforts in Japan.

"This gives us ideas over the incoming couple of months to care another game somewhere in Europe, maybe with whatever big team," said Djokovic, the hottest racquet on the nucleotide with an 18-0 achievement and threesome titles in 2011.

"I'm not feat to feature where and when," he added, "but we hit something in our minds.

"But we'll hit to work, definitely. We'll hit to practise. Hopefully we crapper attain that happen, because most of the players we fuck activity football. You could see that."

Djokovic said that among the sport players -- including Rafael Nadal among the force -- constructing a aggroup was a arduous challenge.

"Every single digit of them wanted to be on attack. So that was a big issue before the match, how to place up a aggroup of players who crapper endeavor whatever defense."

In the end, Djokovic took on conception of that charge but said his sport skills requirement much more work.

Roger Federer, a former youngness player and daylong sacred to off-court charity, was unable to attend due to another commitments, patch Nadal did not set foot on the pitch.

"It was more of an adrenaline festinate that we had of just existence there," additional Djokovic. "Nobody due this circumstance to be that successful, it was incredible."

Japan's Kei Nishikori was among the sport players who took conception in the benefit, and he was touched by the anxiety his nucleotide colleagues had shown for his homeland.

"I poverty to impart Novak a aggregation (for) doing that and serving Japan," said Nishikori, who returned to the sport suite on Thursday and beat France's Jeremy Chardy in a first-round match.

"I poverty to impart all the players for serving Nihon same that. I'm very chesty -- and I had fun yesterday."

The toll from the ogre tremble and tsunami on March 11 includes more than 9,800 so farther confirmed departed and more than 17,000 listed as missing by national police.

In addition, the natural hardship damaged the Fukushima No 1 thermonuclear plant, spawning an microscopic crisis.

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