{"id":244223,"date":"2026-01-14T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244223\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:29:08","slug":"australian-open-million-dollar-one-point-slam-amateur-jordan-smith-stuns-worlds-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244223\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open Million Dollar One Point Slam: Amateur Jordan Smith stuns world&#8217;s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event, held four days before the Australian Open starts on Sunday, featured a total of 48 competitors, including 24 top professionals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eight amateur winners of state championship rounds, eight players who qualified in Melbourne, and another eight wildcards &#8211; including celebrities and invited personalities &#8211; made up the rest of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beginning with a game of &#8216;rock, paper, scissors&#8217; to decide who serves, each match consisted of a single point, with the winner progressing in a knockout format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Australian Open held its inaugural One Point Slam event in 2025, but the prize fund was A$60,000 (\u00a329,808) and Russia&#8217;s Andrey Rublev was the only top-10 player involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the latest attempt by tennis authorities to attract new interest in the sport after the US Open introduced a standalone mixed doubles championship before the main draw last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event, held four days before the Australian Open starts on Sunday, featured a total of 48 competitors,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-244223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}