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<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic
\n Djokovic withdraws from Adelaide<\/p>\n
Serbian will start his season at the Australian Open<\/p>\n
January 05, 2026<\/p>\n
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Getty Images<\/p>\n
Novak Djokovic is a two-time champion in Adelaide (2007, ’23).
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Novak Djokovic<\/a> has withdrawn from the Adelaide International<\/a>. The Serbian announced the news on social media on Monday.<\/p>\n The Serbian wrote on Instagram: \u201cTo all my fans in Adelaide, unfortunately, I am not quite physically ready to compete in the Adelaide International<\/a> next week. It\u2019s personally very disappointing to me as I have such great memories of winning the title there two years ago. I was really excited about returning as it truly feels like playing at home.<\/p>\n \u201cMy focus is now on my preparation for the Australian Open<\/a> and I look forward to arriving in Melbourne soon and seeing all the tennis fans in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n Djokovic has fond memories in Adelaide, having lifted the trophy at the ATP 250 event in 2007 and 2023. The No. 4 player in the PIF ATP Rankings will now start his season at the Australian Open<\/a>, where he has lifted the trophy a record 10 times. The 38-year-old has reached the semi-finals in Melbourne in the past two years, falling to two-time defending champion Jannik Sinner<\/a> in 2024 and Alexander Zverev<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic Djokovic withdraws from Adelaide Serbian will start his season at the Australian Open January 05, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-353955","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\/353955","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=353955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}