{"id":375261,"date":"2026-01-17T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375261\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:39:08","slug":"matteo-berrettini-withdraws-from-australian-open-ahead-of-de-minaur-clash-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375261\/","title":{"rendered":"Matteo Berrettini withdraws from Australian Open ahead of De Minaur clash | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Matteo Berrettini<br \/>\n    Berrettini withdraws from Australian Open ahead of De Minaur clash<\/p>\n<p>Italian announced the news on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>January 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/berrettini-ao-2026-withdrawal.jpg\" alt=\"Matteo Berrettini reached the semi-finals at the Australian Open in 2022.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Matteo Berrettini reached the semi-finals at the Australian Open in 2022.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/matteo-berrettini\/bk40\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matteo Berrettini<\/a> has withdrawn from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a>. The Italian announced the news on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really sorry to have to withdraw from the tournament,\u201d Berrettini said. \u201cI have always enjoyed being and playing here and feeling your incredible support. Thank you to the tournament for their fantastic organisation and I hope to see all of you again very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former No. 6 player in the PIF ATP Rankings was scheduled to face sixth-seeded Australian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alex-de-minaur\/dh58\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex de Minaur<\/a> in the first round but will now be replaced in the draw by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/mackenzie-mcdonald\/mk66\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mackenzie McDonald<\/a>. Berrettini reached the semi-finals at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matteo Berrettini Berrettini withdraws from Australian Open ahead of De Minaur clash Italian announced the news on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-375261","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\/375261","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=375261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}