{"id":354074,"date":"2026-01-05T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354074\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:23:07","slug":"adelaide-international-novak-djokovic-not-physically-ready-for-pre-australian-open-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354074\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide International: Novak Djokovic &#8216;not physically ready&#8217; for pre-Australian Open tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, three-time Australian Open finalist Daniil Medvedev called for the tournament to bring forward its night session matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matches begin at 19:00 local time, with two matches scheduled to take place on Rod Laver Arena and Margaret Court Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Djokovic and Andy Murray have previously spoken about late finishes in Melbourne, with Murray describing his 04:05am finish in 2023 as a &#8220;farce&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Medvedev, who was beaten by Learner Tien in a match that finished at 2:55am local time, said he was &#8220;happy&#8221; to play in the night sessions but scheduling changes would be &#8220;better for everyone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I like soccer, but here [in Australia] I don&#8217;t watch the Premier League because it&#8217;s at two in the morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty much the same &#8212; people who really love tennis would like to see it at six because then they are almost sure to watch both matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;OK, if it goes ridiculously long, [instead of finishing] at three, it would finish at two. It&#8217;s better for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, three-time Australian Open finalist Daniil Medvedev called for the tournament to bring forward its night session matches.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-354074","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\/354074","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=354074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}