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By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, December 6, 2024
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Acquainted faces will make Glad Slam returns subsequent month.
New mother Belinda Bencic and 2022 AO doubles champion Nick Kyrgios will each play the 2025 Australian Open on protected rankings, the match introduced.
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The 27-year-old Bencic, who gave delivery to daughter Bella on April twenty third, is a 2019 US Open semifinalist.
In her final season of Grand Slam competitors in 2023, Bencic reached the spherical of 16 on the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.
Former Wimbledon finalist Kyrgios will launch his Tour-level comeback at Brisbane subsequent month in preparation for his highly-anticipated AO return. Kyrgios partnered good buddy Thanasi Kokkinakis to the 2022 Australian Open doubles championship.
The 29-year-old Kyrgios, whose final Tour-level singles match was a Stuttgart loss in June of 2023, is one in every of six males set to play the Australian Open on protected rankings.
Former world No. 4 Kei Nishikori, Pablo Carreno Busta, Reilly Opelka, Jenson Brooksby and Dominic Stricker are all on the 2025 AO entry checklist utilizing protected rankings.
The primary-draw entry cut-off for each males’s and ladies’s singles fields is No. 98. There are 11 Aussies entered in the primary draw with Alex de Minaur main the checklist of 10 Australian males.
Jannik Sinner is reigning AO males’s champion and Aryna Sabalenka is two-time defending AO girls’s champion.
The 2025 Australian Open is about for January 12-Twenty sixth.
The three-round AO Qualifying Match is scheduled for January 6-Ninth.
