{"id":365802,"date":"2025-12-24T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365802\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:03:28","slug":"nick-kyrgios-confirmed-for-atp-tour-return-after-battle-of-the-sexes-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365802\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios confirmed for ATP Tour return after Battle of the Sexes exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nick Kyrgios<\/a> has been given a wildcard for next month\u2019s Brisbane International<\/a>, marking the first time he will appear on the ATP Tour<\/a> in 10 months. <\/p>\n

Kyrgios, who is featuring in the controversial Battle of the Sexes<\/a> exhibition against women\u2019s world number one Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> in Dubai<\/a> on 28 December, has not played an official ATP match since the Miami Open in March, a loss to Karen Khachanov. <\/p>\n

The Australian has struggled with injury and fitness issues over the last three years, with his ranking dropping to 673 in the world, but the 30-year-old is slated in for the ATP 250 event in Brisbane and the Kooyong Classic exhibition in Melbourne, a week prior to the Australian Open. <\/p>\n

However, Kyrgios is relying on a wildcard to feature at the first Grand Slam of the season at Melbourne Park, as he no longer has a protected ranking. <\/p>\n

Kyrgios played just five matches in 2025 due to injury and pulled out of Wimbledon and the US Open. He lost to British player Jacob Fearnley at last year\u2019s Australian Open. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Kyrgios insists that Sabalenka \u201cwill not beat him\u201d as the pair recently looked ahead to their Battle of the Sexes<\/a> contest on Sunday in the UAE<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cGetting to know her, she\u2019s definitely a character,\u201d Kyrgios said a few months ago. \u201cI\u2019m super excited for that. I think she\u2019s the type of player who genuinely thinks she\u2019s going to win.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe [Sabalenka] is not gonna beat me. Do you really think I have to try 100 per cent? I\u2019m gonna try. Because I\u2019m representing the men\u2019s side. I\u2019d say like 6-2 maybe.<\/p>\n

\"NickNick Kyrgios will play at the Brisbane International next month (AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to go there and say, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s so good, I can\u2019t play this.\u2019 That would make me look so bad. I\u2019d imagine the internet would go crazy \u2014 go bananas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, our serves, women can\u2019t really return those,\u201d Kyrgios also claimed. \u201cAnd then we can just chip and drop shot. I think I\u2019m going to be okay. I\u2019m going to go there, and I don\u2019t want her to win. That\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the original 1973 \u2018Battle of the Sexes\u2019, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs, with King\u2019s victory in Houston going down as one of the most famous matches of all time.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Battle of the Sexes exhibition will be broadcast live on BBC One. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-365802","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\/365802","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=365802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}