{"id":349166,"date":"2025-12-16T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349166\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:35:08","slug":"novak-djokovic-to-headline-adelaide-international-next-month-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349166\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic to Headline Adelaide International Next Month \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Photo credit: Paul Kane\/Getty<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic will launch his 2026 season in Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Grand Slam king Djokovic will headline the Adelaide International set for January 12-17th, the tournament announced today.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Former world No. 1 Djokovic headlines a men\u2019s field that features Tommy Paul, Jack Draper, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Jiri Lehecka and Joao Fonseca.<\/p>\n

Djokovic, who reached the semifinals at all four Grand Slam tournaments in 2025, is playing Adelaide to tune up for the Australian Open where he will play for a record-extending 25th Grand Slam championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2026 edition of the Adelaide International will showcase the tournament\u2019s continued growth and prestige on the global tennis calendar as it attracts world-class caliber from both the WTA and ATP tours,\u201d Adelaide Tournament Director Alicia Molik said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Grand Slam champions, Olympic medalists and breakthrough stars confirmed, the field demonstrates why the Adelaide International has become a must-play event for players ahead of the Australian Open.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the women\u2019s side, four Top-10-ranked players\u2014reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys, 2024 US Open finalist Jessica Pegula, Mirra Andreeva and Ekaterina Alexandrova\u2014lead a field that features former gold-medal champion Belinda Bencic, Clara Tauson, Emma Navarro and Paula Badosa.<\/p>\n

The top-seeded Djokovic defeated Sebastian Korda 6-7(8), 7-6(3), 6-4 to capture the 2023 Adelaide 1 championship. Last January, Felix Auger-Aliassime beat Korda to win the Adelaide title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, December 16, 2025Photo credit: Paul Kane\/Getty Novak Djokovic will launch his 2026 season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-349166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}