{"id":359522,"date":"2025-12-21T10:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359522\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T10:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:11:06","slug":"nick-kyrgios-set-to-make-atp-tour-return-after-being-given-brisbane-wildcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359522\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios set to make ATP Tour return after being given Brisbane wildcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick Kyrgios is in line to play his first ATP Tour match in 10 months after being given a wildcard entry for next month&#8217;s Brisbane International.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fitness issues have restricted the Australian to just five singles matches in 2025, with his most recent a second-round defeat to Karen Khachanov at the Miami Open in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before Brisbane, he will return to the limelight when he faces women&#8217;s world number one Aryna Sabalenka in a Battle of the Sexes-style exhibition match on 28 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The match, which has divided opinion, will be shown live on BBC One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios is in line to play his first ATP Tour match in 10 months after being given&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-359522","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\/359522","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=359522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}