{"id":36419,"date":"2025-12-11T01:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/aryna-sabalenka-confident-battle-of-the-sexes-wont-damage-womens-sport\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T01:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:19:35","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-confident-battle-of-the-sexes-wont-damage-womens-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/aryna-sabalenka-confident-battle-of-the-sexes-wont-damage-womens-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka confident &#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; won&#8217;t damage women&#8217;s sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport speaks to Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios about their controversial &#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; match set to take place in Dubai in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Women&#8217;s world number one Sabalenka insists the exhibition match is &#8220;not a risk&#8221; to her and to women&#8217;s sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kyrgios, the men&#8217;s 2022 Wimbledon runner-up, responds to criticism of him taking part, given he admitted assaulting an ex-girlfriend in 2021 and has made a series of comments which have been considered misogynistic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c1e4dej01yeo\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">&#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; will not damage women&#8217;s sport &#8211; Sabalenka<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/videos\/cm28l1m133vo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Sport speaks to Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios about their controversial &#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; match set to take place in Dubai in December. Women&#8217;s world number one Sabalenka insists the exhibition match is &#8220;not a risk&#8221; to her and to women&#8217;s sport. Kyrgios, the men&#8217;s 2022 Wimbledon runner-up, responds to criticism of him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36420,"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\/36419"}],"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=36419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36421,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36419\/revisions\/36421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}