{"id":14507,"date":"2025-05-15T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nick-kyrgios-to-return-to-french-open-after-eight-years-in-mens-doubles\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:57:10","slug":"nick-kyrgios-to-return-to-french-open-after-eight-years-in-mens-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nick-kyrgios-to-return-to-french-open-after-eight-years-in-mens-doubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios to return to French Open after eight years in men&#8217;s doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The French Open was never really on the cards,&#8221; Kyrgios told the Canberra Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But after the stuff with Max Purcell, Jordan was looking for a partner and he asked me if I wanted to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve played at the French Open before, so it&#8217;ll be good to get out there and play with another fellow Aussie and have a bit of fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair reached the third round when they played together in Paris in 2017, notably knocking out second-seeded pair Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in round one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kyrgios won the men&#8217;s doubles at the 2022 Australian Open, partnering Thanasi Kokkinakis, while Thompson won the US Open title with Purcell last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2025 French Open will run from 25 May to 8 June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c057lndpv25o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The French Open was never really on the cards,&#8221; Kyrgios told the Canberra Times. &#8220;But after the stuff with Max Purcell, Jordan was looking for a partner and he asked me if I wanted to play. &#8220;We&#8217;ve played at the French Open before, so it&#8217;ll be good to get out there and play with another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14509,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions\/14509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}