{"id":215440,"date":"2025-10-15T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215440\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:32:08","slug":"japan-open-katie-boulter-beaten-by-sorana-cirstea-and-injured-naomi-osaka-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215440\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Open: Katie Boulter beaten by Sorana Cirstea and injured Naomi Osaka wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number three Katie Boulter was beaten 6-3 6-1 by Romania&#8217;s Sorana Cirstea in the second round of the Japan Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number 59 Boulter, who shocked world number 17 Linda Noskova in the first round, lost in one hour nine minutes in Osaka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were three breaks of serve in the opening four games as Cirstea, ranked 51 in the world, went 3-1 ahead before wrapping up the first set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She broke Boulter three times on the way to a 5-0 lead in the second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although Boulter broke back, she failed to hold serve in the next game as the impressive Cirstea secured a quarter-final place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British number three Katie Boulter was beaten 6-3 6-1 by Romania&#8217;s Sorana Cirstea in the second round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-215440","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\/215440","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=215440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}