{"id":517846,"date":"2026-01-15T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/517846\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:01:13","slug":"thanasi-kokkinakis-withdraws-from-australian-open-singles-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/517846\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanasi Kokkinakis withdraws from Australian Open singles | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Player News<br \/>\n    Kokkinakis withdraws from Australian Open singles<\/p>\n<p>Australian hopes to play doubles at the season&#8217;s first major<\/p>\n<p>January 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/kokkinakis-australian-open-2026-withdrawal.jpg\" alt=\"Thanasi Kokkinakis played one singles match in Adelaide, where he defeated Sebastian Korda.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Reed\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>        Thanasi Kokkinakis played one singles match in Adelaide, where he defeated Sebastian Korda.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/thanasi-kokkinakis\/kd46\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanasi Kokkinakis<\/a> announced his withdrawal from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Open<\/a> singles event on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately after speaking with my team and doctors I have made the decision to pull out of the @AustralianOpen singles,\u201d Kokkinakis wrote on Instagram Stories. \u201cAfter an incredibly tough year this was the event I was looking forward to the most but I\u2019m not ready yet. I\u2019m doing everything I can every day to be back to 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kokkinakis played his first singles match in nearly a year last week at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/adelaide\/8998\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adelaide International<\/a>, where he defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/sebastian-korda\/k0ah\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sebastian Korda<\/a> in a final-set tie-break.\n<\/p>\n<p>But throughout the match, the Australian struggled with his right shoulder on the back of pectoral surgery last February. He withdrew from Adelaide on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old hopes to compete in doubles at Melbourne Park. He won the title with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/nick-kyrgios\/ke17\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Kyrgios<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will still try and step out for the doubles and have some fun,\u201d Kokkinakis wrote. \u201cThank you to everyone who supports me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Player News Kokkinakis withdraws from Australian Open singles Australian hopes to play doubles at the season&#8217;s first major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":517847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-517846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115899012717996955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}