Nick Kyrgios will compete \u200dat next month’s Brisbane International after receiving a \u200bwildcard entry, organisers said on Sunday, as the former \u200cWimbledon finalist works towards a \u200cpotential return to the Australian Open.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old Australian’s career has been ravaged \u2060by injury over the last \u200ccouple of years and he has \u200bplayed only five singles matches in 2025, \u200dthe most recent at the Miami Open in \u200dMarch.<\/p>\n
Kyrgios<\/a>, the \u200c2018 Brisbane champion, is now ranked 673rd in the world with no protected \u2060ranking and will also need a wildcard to compete at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n In the build-up to the season’s first Grand Slam, he will play in the Kooyong Classic warm-up exhibition event in Melbourne \u2060as well as a “battle of \u200cthe sexes” clash with women’s world number one Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> in Dubai on December 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios will compete \u200dat next month’s Brisbane International after receiving a \u200bwildcard entry, organisers said on Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-361916","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\/361916","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=361916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}