{"id":371901,"date":"2025-12-25T23:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/371901\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T23:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:57:16","slug":"when-is-it-and-where-to-watch-the-battle-of-the-sexes-between-aryna-sabalenka-and-nick-kyrgios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/371901\/","title":{"rendered":"When is it and where to watch the Battle of the Sexes between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios are set to star in another &#8220;Battle of the Sexes&#8221;, an exhibition tennis match between a man and a woman. Back in 1973, Margaret Court and Billie Jean King played against Bobby Riggs, with King winning. That match was seen as a symbol for gender equality in the sport, whereas this match has proven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/billie-jean-king-criticises-sabalenkas-battle-of-the-sexes-ours-was-about-social-change-this-is-not-1647473\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">much more controversial<\/a>, with an added trans exclusionary meaning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/aryna-sabalenka-says-its-not-fair-to-face-transgender-women-in-tennis-1646723\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">following Sabalenka&#8217;s comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka, World No. 1 in women&#8217;s tennis, will face Kyrgios, former World No. 13, and currently World No. 672 after a series of injuries. The Battle of the Sexes between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios will take place in Dubai, at the Coca Cola Arena, on Sunday 28th December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The match will start at 17:00 CET, 16:00 GMT (UK time). That&#8217;s 20:00 local time in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that should be noted is that there will be special rules: Sabalenka&#8217;s side of the court will be 9% smaller, and they will only have one serve, which will be more detrimental to Kyrgios due to the smaller court on Sabalenka&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>Where to watch the Battle of the Sexes between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios?<\/p>\n<p>The new Battle of the Sexes between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios will be broadcast on BBC One in the UK, as well as the BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, the match will be broadcast on Movistar+.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1651583-4720253\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/02\/_4720253b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/02\/_4720253_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1651583','4720253',false,'e66d8b2d8fb314870ddb448218cea8e1');\" height=\"366\" alt=\"When is it and where to watch the Battle of the Sexes between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-a6644f731d26e9d1d4426e4e-=\"\"\/>Leonard Zhukovsky \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios are set to star in another &#8220;Battle of the Sexes&#8221;, an exhibition tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-371901","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\/371901","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=371901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}