{"id":179723,"date":"2021-12-20T00:53:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T19:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=179723"},"modified":"2021-12-20T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T19:24:00","slug":"australian-open-2022-jennifer-brady-joins-growing-list-of-absentees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/20\/australian-open-2022-jennifer-brady-joins-growing-list-of-absentees\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2022: Jennifer Brady joins growing list of absentees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Melbourne, Dec 19 (AP): Jennifer Brady has become the latest withdrawal from next month&#8217;s Australian Open and two warm-up tournaments because of injury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australian Open officials on Sunday confirmed the 2021 finalist would miss the tournament due to a left foot injury, and said in a tweet: &#8220;wishing you a speedy recovery Jen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brady, ranked 25, made her maiden grand slam final at last year&#8217;s event at Melbourne Park , losing in straight sets to Naomi Osaka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 26-year-old American has not played competitively since being forced to retire from her second-round match against Jelena Ostapenko at Cincinnati in August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brady&#8217;s withdrawal follows that of the world fourth-ranked player, Karolina Pliskova, who announced Thursday that she would not be coming to Australia due to a right hand injury sustained during a practice session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this month, Canada&#8217;s Bianca Andreescu said she would be taking time away from the sport to address mental health concerns, while 23-time grand slam winner Serena Williams said she would not travel down under following &#8216;advice from her medical team&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Six-time Australian Open champion Roger Federer is out of the men&#8217;s draw as he continues his long recovery from knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Australian Open begins 17 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Dec 19 (AP): Jennifer Brady has become the latest withdrawal from next month&#8217;s Australian Open and two warm-up tournaments because of injury. Australian Open officials on Sunday confirmed the 2021 finalist would miss the tournament due to a left foot injury, and said in a tweet: &#8220;wishing you a speedy recovery Jen.&#8221; Brady, ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-179723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}