{"id":259578,"date":"2025-11-03T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259578\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:20:10","slug":"jannik-sinner-and-carlos-alcaraz-to-play-south-korea-exhibition-match-before-australian-open-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259578\/","title":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz to play South Korea exhibition match before Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner will play an exhibition match in South Korea in January – just eight days before the start of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

The duo will meet in the Hyundai Card Super Match in Incheon on 10 January, with the Australian Open main draw getting under way in Melbourne on 18 January. <\/p>\n

“For domestic tennis fans it will be the very first opportunity to see the two top-ranked players compete,” tournament organisers said. <\/p>\n

The pair, who met in three of the four Grand Slam finals in 2025, have won nine of the past 10 major titles between them.<\/p>\n

Sinner reclaimed his status as world number one from Alcaraz on Sunday following victory at the Paris Masters. <\/a><\/p>\n

Sinner’s 6-4 7-6 (7-4) victory over Felix Auger-Aliassime lifted the Italian 250 points above Alcaraz in the rankings before the season-ending ATP finals on 9 November.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz leads the pair’s head-to-head, with 10 victories to Sinner’s five.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard came out on top in an epic French Open final in June, before Sinner gained revenge at Wimbledon in July. <\/p>\n

But Alcaraz won the most recent battle between the pair, winning his sixth Grand Slam with victory at the US Open in September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner will play an exhibition match in South Korea in January – just eight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-259578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259578","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=259578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}