{"id":260233,"date":"2025-11-03T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260233\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:37:14","slug":"alcaraz-and-sinner-to-play-south-korea-exhibition-ahead-of-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260233\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz and Sinner to play South Korea exhibition ahead of Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-typoNewsPerex\" itemprop=\"description\">Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz will face off in an exhibition match in South Korea in January ahead of the Australian Open, organisers said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/sinner-jannik\/6HdC3z4H\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinner<\/a> usurped his rival from Spain as world number one after winning the Paris Masters for the first time on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The two best players in men&#8217;s tennis will meet in the &#8220;Hyundai Card Super Match&#8221; on January 10th in Incheon, near Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For domestic tennis fans, it will be the very first opportunity to see the two top-ranked players compete,&#8221; said a Hyundai press release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/alcaraz-garfia-carlos\/UkhgIFEq\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcaraz<\/a>, who has complained about there being too many matches on the ATP Tour, leads their head-to-head record 10-5.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner will defend his Australian Open title in the first Grand Slam of 2026, which begins in Melbourne on January 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz will face off in an exhibition match in South Korea in January ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-260233","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\/260233","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=260233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}