{"id":410287,"date":"2026-01-15T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410287\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:02:08","slug":"thanasi-kokkinakis-withdraws-from-australian-open-singles-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410287\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanasi Kokkinakis withdraws from Australian Open singles | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Player News<br \/>\n    Kokkinakis withdraws from Australian Open singles<\/p>\n<p>Australian hopes to play doubles at the season&#8217;s first major<\/p>\n<p>January 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/kokkinakis-australian-open-2026-withdrawal.jpg\" alt=\"Thanasi Kokkinakis played one singles match in Adelaide, where he defeated Sebastian Korda.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Reed\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Thanasi Kokkinakis played one singles match in Adelaide, where he defeated Sebastian Korda.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/thanasi-kokkinakis\/kd46\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thanasi Kokkinakis<\/a> announced his withdrawal from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> singles event on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately after speaking with my team and doctors I have made the decision to pull out of the @AustralianOpen singles,\u201d Kokkinakis wrote on Instagram Stories. \u201cAfter an incredibly tough year this was the event I was looking forward to the most but I\u2019m not ready yet. I\u2019m doing everything I can every day to be back to 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kokkinakis played his first singles match in nearly a year last week at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/adelaide\/8998\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adelaide International<\/a>, where he defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/sebastian-korda\/k0ah\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Korda<\/a> in a final-set tie-break.\n<\/p>\n<p>But throughout the match, the Australian struggled with his right shoulder on the back of pectoral surgery last February. He withdrew from Adelaide on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old hopes to compete in doubles at Melbourne Park. He won the title with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/nick-kyrgios\/ke17\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Kyrgios<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will still try and step out for the doubles and have some fun,\u201d Kokkinakis wrote. \u201cThank you to everyone who supports me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player News Kokkinakis withdraws from Australian Open singles Australian hopes to play doubles at the season&#8217;s first major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-410287","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\/410287","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=410287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}