{"id":23711,"date":"2025-12-22T03:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nick-kyrgios-set-to-make-atp-tour-return-after-being-given-brisbane-wildcard\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T03:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:22:16","slug":"nick-kyrgios-set-to-make-atp-tour-return-after-being-given-brisbane-wildcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nick-kyrgios-set-to-make-atp-tour-return-after-being-given-brisbane-wildcard\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios set to make ATP Tour return after being given Brisbane wildcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Nick Kyrgios is in line to play his first ATP Tour match in 10 months after being given a wildcard entry for next month&#8217;s Brisbane International.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fitness issues have restricted the Australian to just five singles matches in 2025, with his most recent a second-round defeat to Karen Khachanov at the Miami Open in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before Brisbane, he will return to the limelight when he faces women&#8217;s world number one Aryna Sabalenka in a Battle of the Sexes-style exhibition match on 28 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The match, which has divided opinion, will be shown live on BBC One.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c62v1dl4rpyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Kyrgios is in line to play his first ATP Tour match in 10 months after being given a wildcard entry for next month&#8217;s Brisbane International. Fitness issues have restricted the Australian to just five singles matches in 2025, with his most recent a second-round defeat to Karen Khachanov at the Miami Open in March. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23711","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\/23711","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=23711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23713,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23711\/revisions\/23713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}