{"id":28642,"date":"2021-01-30T04:12:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T05:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=28642"},"modified":"2021-01-30T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T09:00:09","slug":"kyrgios-set-for-australian-open-tune-up-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=28642","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgios set for Australian Open tune-up event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-2021-rejuvenated-nick-kyrgios-raring-to-go-john-millman\/7e59ab26-8927-4366-a78b-bda02775285e\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Australian tennis weapon Nick Kyrgios\">Australian tennis weapon Nick Kyrgios<\/a> is set to feature in an <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/crowds-to-be-capped-at-30000-per-day-for-next-months-australian-open\/09cfaed0-b6b8-4422-ade3-0369146ad775\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Australian Open\">Australian Open<\/a> lead-up event also boasting grand slam champions Stan Wawrinka and Marin Cilic.<\/p>\n<p>The three stars will take to Melbourne Park for the Murray River Open, which is set to begin on Monday and wrap up next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1355384152628088832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1355384152628088832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the rest of the field will be world No.19 and 2017 ATP Finals champion Grigor Dimitrov, one of 16 seeded men set to tune up for Melbourne&#x27;s grand slam in the exhibition event.<\/p>\n<p>A total of seven Australians will compete in the Murray River Open in Kyrgios, James Duckworth, Alexei Popyrin, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Alex Bolt, Marc Polmans and Bernard Tomic.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"710729c1-b555-4cdc-9f64-992f5e8c2a5b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/710729c1-b555-4cdc-9f64-992f5e8c2a5b\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A second ATP 250 event called the Great Ocean Road Open is also set to take place at Melbourne Park from February 1-7.<\/p>\n<p>That will be headlined by world No.14 David Goffin and seed No.20 Karen Khachanov &#8211; two of 16 seeded players &#8211; while Australians Jordan Thompson, Chris O&#x27;Connell and Aleksandar Vukic will also touch down.<\/p>\n<p>The Murray River Open and Great Ocean Road Open will run alongside the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/novak-djokovic-and-rafael-nadal-lead-field-for-2021-atp-cup\/9151fb82-03fd-4a93-a033-6e8a5075d51d\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"ATP Cup\">ATP Cup<\/a> (February 2-6).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true)\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Australian tennis weapon Nick Kyrgios is set to feature in an Australian Open lead-up event also boasting grand slam champions Stan Wawrinka and Marin Cilic. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=28642\" title=\"Kyrgios set for Australian Open tune-up event\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28644,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28642\/revisions\/28644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}