{"id":5210,"date":"2026-01-06T08:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:36:40","slug":"nick-kyrgios-beaten-in-straight-sets-in-just-65-minutes-at-brisbane-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5210","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios beaten in straight sets in just 65 minutes at Brisbane International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kyrgios appeared to clutch his elbow in discomfort during the match with world number 58 Kovacevic, and managed to win a point with one of his trademark underarm serves in the second set. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The loss will not help Kyrgios&#8217; hopes of playing in his first Grand Slam since a first-round defeat by Britain&#8217;s Jacob Fearnley at his home tournment in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is next in action on Wednesday in the men&#8217;s doubles with Australian-Greek partner Thanasi Kokkinakis, before taking part in the Kooyong Classic warm-up exhibition event in \u200dMelbourne next week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kovacevic, 27, meanwhile, will face either Britain&#8217;s Cameron Norrie or Frenchman Ugo Humbert in the second round. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrgios appeared to clutch his elbow in discomfort during the match with world number 58 Kovacevic, and managed to win a point with one of his trademark underarm serves in the second set. The loss will not help Kyrgios&#8217; hopes of playing in his first Grand Slam since a first-round defeat by Britain&#8217;s Jacob Fearnley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}