{"id":351649,"date":"2025-12-16T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351649\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:35:08","slug":"novak-djokovic-to-compete-in-adelaide-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351649\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic to compete in Adelaide | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Adelaide International 2<br \/>\n    Djokovic to compete in Adelaide<\/p>\n<p>Draper, Fonseca also to play in ATP 250 event<\/p>\n<p>December 16, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/djokovic-adelaide-trophy.jpg\" alt=\"Novak Djokovic was victorious in Adelaide in 2023.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Novak Djokovic was victorious in Adelaide in 2023.<br \/>\n        By <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/novak-djokovic\/d643\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> will return to Adelaide, tournament organisers revealed Tuesday in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian will compete in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/adelaide\/8998\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adelaide International<\/a>, an ATP 250 event that will take place from 12-17 January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt definitely felt like playing at home, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSTfwtogZLB\/\" target=\"_blank\">Djokovic said after claiming glory two years ago in Adelaide<\/a>. \u201cThe support that I\u2019ve been getting in the last 10 days, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve experienced too many times in my life, so thank you so much for everyone for coming out every single match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch Highlights: Djokovic vs. Korda in 2023 Adelaide final<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has competed in Adelaide twice before. The former No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Rankings triumphed in the South Australian city in 2007 and again in 2023. Two years ago, he defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/daniil-medvedev\/mm58\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/sebastian-korda\/k0ah\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Korda<\/a> in the semi-finals and final, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Other entrants in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/adelaide\/8998\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adelaide International<\/a> include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jack-draper\/d0co\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Draper<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/joao-fonseca\/f0fv\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joao Fonseca<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/tommy-paul\/pl56\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Paul<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/stefanos-tsitsipas\/te51\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide International 2 Djokovic to compete in Adelaide Draper, Fonseca also to play in ATP 250 event December&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-351649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}