{"id":309597,"date":"2025-12-10T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309597\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:29:08","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-confident-battle-of-the-sexes-wont-damage-womens-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309597\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka confident &#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; won&#8217;t damage women&#8217;s sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport speaks to Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios about their controversial &#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; match set to take place in Dubai in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Women&#8217;s world number one Sabalenka insists the exhibition match is &#8220;not a risk&#8221; to her and to women&#8217;s sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kyrgios, the men&#8217;s 2022 Wimbledon runner-up, responds to criticism of him taking part, given he admitted assaulting an ex-girlfriend in 2021 and has made a series of comments which have been considered misogynistic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c1e4dej01yeo\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; will not damage women&#8217;s sport &#8211; Sabalenka<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Sport speaks to Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios about their controversial &#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; match set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-309597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}