{"id":373440,"date":"2025-12-26T17:44:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373440\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:44:29","slug":"jennifer-brady-to-return-to-australian-open-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/373440\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Brady to Return to Australian Open \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, December 26, 2025
Photo credit: Australian Open Facebook<\/p>\n

Jennifer Brady will launch her comeback Down Under.<\/p>\n

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Brady will make her first appearance in Melbourne Park five years after her run to the 2021 AO final.<\/p>\n

Former world No. 13 Brady is one of several notable American players on the 2026 Australian Open Qualifying Entry List. Brady reached the 2021 AO final falling to Naomi Osaka 6-4-, 6-3.<\/p>\n

A litany of injuries have sidelined the 30-year-old Pennsylvania native.<\/p>\n

Brady has battled a foot injury and underwent right knee surgery in January of 2024. She\u2019s currently listed as \u201cinactive\u201d on her WTA player page<\/a>. However, Brady is on the AO entry qualifying list under a Special Ranking of No. 222 and poised to make her first major appearance since the 2023 US Open.<\/p>\n

Brady joins compatriots 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens, Taylor Townsend, Madison Brengle, Claire Lu and Bernarda Pera on the AO Qualifying Entry List.<\/p>\n

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Polina Kudermetova, Katie Boulter, Storm Hunter and Lucia Bronzetti are also on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, December 26, 2025Photo credit: Australian Open Facebook Jennifer Brady will launch her comeback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-373440","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\/373440","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=373440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}