{"id":176508,"date":"2025-09-29T02:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176508\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:10:16","slug":"clara-tausons-terrible-form-continues-as-she-loses-to-world-no-82-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176508\/","title":{"rendered":"Clara Tauson’s terrible form continues as she loses to World No. 82 in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clara Tauson’s terrible autumn form continued on Saturday morning as she crashed out of the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing, where she was defeated by World No. 82, Zeynep Sonmez, 4-6, 6-2, 3-6<\/p>\n

The defeat was a huge setback in relation to her ambitions of qualifying for the season-ending WTA Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tauson<\/a> received medical attention along the way and only briefly showed her usual high level in the match.<\/p>\n

22-year-old Tauson had a terrible start to the match. She didn’t seem mentally present at all, wasn’t moving well, and quickly fell behind 4-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the scoreline 5-2 in Sonmez<\/a>‘s favor, Tauson requested a medical timeout and indicated that she was having trouble breathing.<\/p>\n

Tauson chose to continue and managed to reduce the deficit to 4-5. Tauson then led Sonmez’s following service game 30-0, but the Turk still managed to clinch the first set as the Dane smashed a forehand wide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tauson was transformed from the start of the second set. Her serve started working, and this time it was the Dane who broke from the beginning and took a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n

The Dane played wisely, let her opponent make the mistakes, and had no trouble taking the set 6-2.<\/p>\n

But Tauson couldn’t hold on to the momentum. The Turk raised her level and took great initiative in the third set as Tauson’s game fell apart again.<\/p>\n

The Dane was broken for 1-2, and Sonmez followed up with another break when a terrific backhand winner gave her a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Tauson managed to break back to make it 3-5, but it was of little use as she subsequently lost her own serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Tauson’s terrible autumn form continued on Saturday morning as she crashed out of the WTA 1000 tournament…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-176508","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\/176508","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=176508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}