{"id":364133,"date":"2026-01-11T08:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364133\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T08:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:44:22","slug":"joao-fonseca-doubtful-for-australian-open-after-withdrawing-from-adelaide-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364133\/","title":{"rendered":"Joao Fonseca doubtful for Australian Open after withdrawing from Adelaide tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca on Saturday pulled out of a second tournament in a row with back pain, casting a shadow over his Australian Open build-up.<\/p>\n<p>The world number 29, who won titles in Basel and Buenos Aires last season, withdrew from the Adelaide International next week, having also missed the Brisbane International.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old said: &#8220;It was difficult to make this decision. After some days of practice I was feeling better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m at 100 percent. I&#8217;m trying my best to recover. The Australian Open is the main goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We did an MRI (scan) and the problem is nothing very serious. But we want to be 100 percent safe. We know it could have been worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Open starts on Sunday, January 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca on Saturday pulled out of a second tournament in a row with back pain,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-364133","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\/364133","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=364133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}