Today marks the start of tournaments in Beijing and Tokyo, with Frances Tiafoe, Barbora Krejcikova and Denis Shapovalov among the standout names in first-round action.<\/p>\n
07:30 CET – Good morning and welcome to our coverage of today’s tennis as the Asian hard-court swing continues to roll on,\u00a0with prestigious tournaments in Beijing and Tokyo getting underway!<\/p>\n
There have already been a few notable results overnight, as McCartney Kessler<\/a> downed home player Han Shi<\/a> 6-2, 7-6 (7-5)<\/a> in Beijing, whilst Matteo Berrettini<\/a> recorded his first win on tour since May with a dominant 6-4, 6-2<\/a> win against Jaume Munar<\/a>.<\/p>\n Barbora Krejcikova<\/a> begins her campaign at the WTA 1000 event in Beijing this morning against Anna Blinkova<\/a>, while Denis Shapovalov<\/a> and Frances Tiafoe<\/a> will shortly take to the court in Tokyo.<\/p>\n Check out the full schedules for Beijing<\/a> (WTA), Beijing<\/a> (ATP) and Tokyo<\/a> (ATP) via the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today marks the start of tournaments in Beijing and Tokyo, with Frances Tiafoe, Barbora Krejcikova and Denis Shapovalov…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-165183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}