{"id":757,"date":"2026-01-01T00:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/26-for-2026-unmissable-sporting-events-over-the-next-12-months\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:14:21","slug":"26-for-2026-unmissable-sporting-events-over-the-next-12-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/26-for-2026-unmissable-sporting-events-over-the-next-12-months\/","title":{"rendered":"26 for 2026: unmissable sporting events over the next 12 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year features a football World Cup, a Winter Olympics, a Commonwealth Games and a historic Test match Jannik Sinner will be aiming to become only the second man in the Open era, after Novak Djokovic, to win three consecutive Australian Open singles titles, while in the women\u2019s draw Madison Keys will be seeking to defend the title she landed via a shock victory over Aryna Sabalenka in last year\u2019s final. Elsewhere, Roger Federer is scheduled to return to Melbourne Park for the first time since retiring from tennis in 2022 as part of a Battle of the World No 1s match, alongside Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter and Lleyton Hewitt. \u201cIt still makes me smile when I think about all the moments I\u2019ve had here,\u201d said the Swiss legend. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year features a football World Cup, a Winter Olympics, a Commonwealth Games and a historic Test match Jannik Sinner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}