{"id":390415,"date":"2026-01-05T22:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390415\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:11:09","slug":"novak-djokovic-withdraws-from-adelaide-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390415\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic Withdraws from Adelaide \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, January 5, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: Paul Kane\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>Novak Djokovic\u2019s road to the Australian Open will bypass Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Slam king Djokovic announced today he has withdrawn from next week\u2019s Adelaide International because he\u2019s not quite physically ready to compete.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Pro-Player-Gear2.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54540\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s personally very disappointing to me as I have such great memories of winning the title there two years ago,\u201d Djokovic posted on Instagram. \u201cI was really excited about returning as it truly felt like playing at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy focus is now on my preparation for the Australian Open and I look forward to arrive in Melbourne soon and seeing all the tennis fans in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Djokovic-Adelaide.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59441\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Australian Open main draw is set for January 18-February 1.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has won a record 10 Australian Open championships with his most recent Melbourne crown coming in 2023 when he defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, January 5, 2026Photo credit: Paul Kane\/Getty Novak Djokovic\u2019s road to the Australian Open&hellip;\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-390415","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\/390415","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=390415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390415\/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=390415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}