Former Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios and Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Belinda Bencic will make their Grand Slam returns at subsequent month’s Australian Open, utilizing protected rankings, event organizers introduced Friday.
Kyrgios, ranked twenty first, has not performed in a Grand Slam since 2022 on account of knee, foot and wrist accidents. Bencic, who gave start to a daughter in April, will return with a particular rating of fifteenth.
“Kyrgios and Bencic are among six men and six women competing … using protected rankings, setting the main-draw entry ranking cut-off for both fields at No. 98 in the world,” the organizers stated in an announcement.
Former world No. 4 Kei Nishikori will even play with a protected rating, making his first look within the Australian Open males’s singles since 2021, the assertion added.
Defending champions Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka, who’re on the high of the lads’s and girls’s rankings, would be the high seeds at Melbourne Park, with 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic eyeing a document eleventh Australian Open title.
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