{"id":361676,"date":"2025-12-21T02:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/361676\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T02:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:55:08","slug":"nick-kyrgios-to-begin-preparations-for-australian-open-with-atp-tour-wildcard-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/361676\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios to begin preparations for Australian Open with ATP Tour wildcard entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kyrgios has ramped up his preparations for next year&#8217;s Australian Open, securing a wildcard entry for the Brisbane International.<\/p>\n<p>Since reaching the final of Wimbledon in 2022, Kyrgios has had a horrid run of injuries, being forced into multiple surgeries that has seen him drop to his current ranking of 673.<\/p>\n<p>But after injuries forced him out of action for most of 2025, the 30-year-old is set return to action late in the year, headlined by the &#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; match at the end of the month against the top-ranked women&#8217;s player, Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios will take part in both the singles&#8217; and doubles&#8217; draw of the Brisbane International, where in the latter format, he will team up with Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis, who he won the Australian Open with in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/tennis\/news\/former-australian-open-champion-announces-retirement-2026-stan-wawrinka\/59fd4eeb289d69338485fbdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former Australian Open champion announces retirement for 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Brisbane International is set to place from January 4-11, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgios will be hoping for a wildcard entry into the Australian Open shortly after, where the main draw takes place from January 18 to February 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios has ramped up his preparations for next year&#8217;s Australian Open, securing a wildcard entry for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-361676","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\/361676","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=361676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}