{"id":195483,"date":"2025-10-07T13:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195483\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:57:33","slug":"uts-hong-kong-kyrgios-withdraws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195483\/","title":{"rendered":"UTS Hong Kong : Kyrgios withdraws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14 and 15, <a href=\"http:\/\/uts.live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UTS<\/a> will be held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uts.live\/league-2025\/hong-kong\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong<\/a> for the third stage of the season after Guadalajara and N\u00eemes\u2026 but without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uts.live\/nick-kyrgios\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Kyrgios<\/a>. Still suffering from a knee injury, the Australian is forced to withdraw despite being present in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Kyrgios will be replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uts.live\/juncheng-shang\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juncheng Shang<\/a>, world No. 237 and a rising Chinese talent, who will make his UTS debut. \u201cI haven\u2019t been able to recover from my knee injury in time, so I\u2019ll miss Hong Kong\u201d, Kyrgios said. \u201cHowever, I will be going to support the event and see the fans. The tennis will be incredible, and I\u2019m excited to be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another withdrawal to note is Tomas Machac, the Guadalajara champion earlier this year, who will be replaced by Adrian Mannarino. The Frenchman also took part in the Mexican edition last February, where he reached the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who will win the Zeus Trophy at Chubb UTS Hong Kong with Humansa? Make your plans now as the draw has been revealed! Welcome Juncheng Shang and Adrian Mannarino to the draw as replacements for the unfortunately injured Nick Kyrgios and Tomas Machac. Nick will still be in Hong\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jbRcmsH6on\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jbRcmsH6on<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UTS Tour (@uts_tour_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uts_tour_\/status\/1975526039771087352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quarterfinals (October 14, Kai Tak Arena)<\/p>\n<p>Alex de Minaur (No.1) vs Zhizhen Zhang<br \/>Juncheng Shang vs Jakub Mensik<br \/>Francisco Cerundolo vs Adrian Mannarino<br \/>Coleman Wong vs Andrey Rublev (No.2)<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On October 14 and 15, UTS will be held in Hong Kong for the third stage of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-195483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}