Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten announced on Friday his return to the tennis courts, though not by professional means, after retiring last year.

Guga will firstly play against Spaniard Sergi Bruguera, the player he beat to win his first Grand Slam in an exhibition game held in southern Brazilian city of Florianopolis on June 13.

The game will be a re-match of their 1997 battle in which Kuerten won 3-0.

The exact location has yet to be defined for the match, which will put an end to Guga Kuerten Week that will hold speeches, free clinics, physical education and environmental awareness.

A tennis tournament for infants and youths will also take place in the capital city of Santa Catarina.

Apart from the 1997 straight sets victory scoring 6-3, 6-4, 6-2,Guga faced Bruguera for two other times.

In both games, Guga got the best of the Spanish player in 2000 in Bogota as well as in Mallorca in 1998.

The exhibition match will be Guga's first game since he retired last year after losing to French Paul-Henri Matheiu in the first round of the 2008 Roland Garros.

Guga claimed that he hopes to participate in many more exhibition games in the future, but that this match will be his only exhibition game of the year.

(Xinhua News Agency February 7, 2009)