{"id":201580,"date":"2025-12-24T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/201580\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:23:11","slug":"zheng-qinwen-to-join-osaka-alcaraz-in-1-point-slam-before-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/201580\/","title":{"rendered":"Zheng Qinwen to join Osaka, Alcaraz in 1 Point Slam before Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s Zheng Qinwen will resume her comeback at an exhibition event with a difference on the eve of next month\u2019s Australian Open: a tournament consisting of one-point matches.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zheng, who had surgery on a troublesome right elbow in July and has barely played since, will join the likes of Naomi Osaka, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner in the AO 1 Point Slam at Melbourne\u2019s Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ten amateur players will try their luck against 22 professionals in knockout rounds, with \u201crock, paper, scissors\u201d deciding who serves in each sudden-death point. The winner will take home A$1 million (US$671,000) \u2013 only slightly less than the A$1.1 million earned by singles semi-finalists at the last Australian Open proper.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The day before the 1 Point Slam on January 14, Olympic champion Zheng will play an exhibition match against Elena Rybakina as she gears up for the Australian Open itself, which will be held from January 18 to February 1.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zheng Qinwen carries Hubei\u2019s flag at the National Games\u2019 opening ceremony on November 9. Photo: Xinhua\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4659664e-bd76-4071-93d5-5c0e44c9abbe_cda6ee02.jpg\" title=\"Zheng Qinwen carries Hubei\u2019s flag at the National Games\u2019 opening ceremony on November 9. Photo: Xinhua\"\/>Zheng Qinwen carries Hubei\u2019s flag at the National Games\u2019 opening ceremony on November 9. Photo: Xinhua<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Melbourne will see the latest attempt at a return to action for Zheng, who underwent elbow surgery after Wimbledon, missing over two months of competition and skipping the US Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Zheng Qinwen will resume her comeback at an exhibition event with a difference on the eve of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[113496,58983,29992,3773,29993,113493,113492,28888,85,46,113491,3774,29168,54488,113494,113495,105,8019],"class_list":{"0":"post-201580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ao-1-point-slam","9":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","10":"tag-australian-open","11":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","12":"tag-china-open","13":"tag-elena-rybakina","14":"tag-french-open","15":"tag-hubei","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-italian-open","19":"tag-jannik-sinner","20":"tag-naomi-osaka","21":"tag-national-games","22":"tag-ningbo-opens","23":"tag-rod-laver-arena","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-wuhan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}