{"id":51140,"date":"2025-12-13T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51140"},"modified":"2025-12-13T05:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:29:53","slug":"roger-federer-announces-historic-australian-open-return-for-inaugural-opening-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51140","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer announces historic Australian Open return for inaugural opening ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Roger Federer is set to make a historic return to the court and kick off the first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/culture\/story\/carlos-alcaraz-wins-us-open-6th-grand-slam-125357273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grand Slam<\/a>&nbsp;of the tennis season at the 2026 Australian Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The 44-year-old who retired in 2022 after more than 24 years in the sport took social media by storm with a selfie video posted to Instagram announcing his highly-anticipated return to Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">AO 2026 runs Jan. 12 to Feb. 1, 2026, for three weeks of world-class tennis and hospitality at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/Culture\/roger-federer-announces-historic-australian-open-return-inaugural\/story?id=128358998\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer is set to make a historic return to the court and kick off the first&nbsp;Grand Slam&nbsp;of the tennis season at the 2026 Australian Open. The 44-year-old who retired in 2022 after more than 24 years in the sport took social media by storm with a selfie video posted to Instagram announcing his highly-anticipated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":51141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[35625,10393,30029],"class_list":["post-51140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-federer","tag-historic","tag-roger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51142,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51140\/revisions\/51142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}