{"id":420602,"date":"2026-01-18T05:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420602\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:36:08","slug":"australian-open-live-blog-toilet-trouble-leads-to-20th-seeds-demise-in-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420602\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open live blog: Toilet trouble leads to 20th seed’s demise in first round"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian Open is back for 2026, with 128 men and 128 women vying for the title in the year’s first Grand Slam. It’s first-round action in Melbourne, and the stars will be out and about!<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

Both No. 1 seeds are in action on Rod Laver Arena today — that’s Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> — while Emma Raducanu<\/a> and Venus Williams<\/a> are among the names in action elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Settle in, get comfy. We’ll be taking you through the day’s proceedings with all the big news, results, schedules, and more from the Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Open is back for 2026, with 128 men and 128 women vying for the title in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-420602","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\/420602","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=420602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}