{"id":23420,"date":"2024-12-06T09:55:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/2025-australian-open-nick-kyrgios-to-make-grand-slam-return-in-melbourne\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:55:43","slug":"2025-australian-open-nick-kyrgios-to-make-grand-slam-return-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/2025-australian-open-nick-kyrgios-to-make-grand-slam-return-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Australian Open: Nick Kyrgios to make Grand Slam return in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like Kyrgios, Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Belinda Bencic is also set to use her protected ranking to enter the Australian Open main draw after missing all of this year&#8217;s Grand Slams following the birth of her daughter Bella in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number one Draper has never gone beyond the the second round at the Australian Open but will be hoping to build further momentum after reaching the semi-finals of the US Open in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kartal, 23, will make her main draw debut in Melbourne, while Burrage, 25, had a first-round exit in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending champions Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka, who top the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s rankings, are both on the main draw list, while 24-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic, who is targeting a record 11th Australian Open crown, is also confirmed for the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former world number four Kei Nishikori is another player using his protected ranking to return to the Australian Open for the first time since 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cjr24v0re1po\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Kyrgios, Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Belinda Bencic is also set to use her protected ranking to enter the Australian Open main draw after missing all of this year&#8217;s Grand Slams following the birth of her daughter Bella in April. British number one Draper has never gone beyond the the second round at the Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23422,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23420\/revisions\/23422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}