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Written by Richard Pagliaro | @Itenisi_Manje | Friday, December 6, 2024
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A well-known face will make the Joyful Slam return subsequent month.
A brand new mom Belinda Bencic and 2022 AO doubles champion Nick Kyrgios each will play the 2025 Australian Open within the protected rankings, the event introduced.
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Bencic, 27, who gave beginning to daughter Bella on April 23, is a 2019 US Open semifinalist.
In his last Grand Slam event season in 2023, Bencic reached the spherical of 16 on the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.
Former Wimbledon finalist Kyrgios will launch his return to Tour stage in Brisbane subsequent month to arrange for his much-anticipated AO return. Kyrgios is partnering good good friend Thanasi Kokkinakis within the 2022 Australian Open doubles event.
The 29-year-old Kyrgios, whose final Tour-level match was a loss to Stuttgart in June 2023, is certainly one of six males to play the Australian Open within the protected rankings.
Former land No. 4 Kei Nishikori, Pablo Carreno Busta, Reilly Opelka, Jenson Brooksby and Dominic Stricker all are on the 2025 AO entry record utilizing protected requirements.
The principle-draw cut-off for each males’s and ladies’s singles is quantity 98. There are 11 Aussies entered in the primary draw Alex de Minaur main the Australian males’s 10 record.
Jannik Sinner reigning AO males’s champion once more Aryna Sabalenka she is a two-time AO ladies’s champion.
The 2025 Australian Open is scheduled for January 12-26.
The three-round AO Qualifying Event is scheduled for January 6-9.
