{"id":414811,"date":"2026-01-15T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414811\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:34:07","slug":"giron-beats-rain-shelton-waits-in-delayed-auckland-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414811\/","title":{"rendered":"Giron beats rain, Shelton waits in delayed Auckland quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUCKLAND, New Zealand &#8212; Top-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=9250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Shelton<\/a> was a set down to seventh-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3340\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Baez<\/a> when their quarterfinal at the ASB Classic was suspended because of rain Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The first quarterfinal won by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1993\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcos Giron<\/a> over third-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=7833\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luciano Darderi<\/a> 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 took more than seven hours to complete because of repeated rain breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Eighth-ranked Shelton and 39th-ranked Baez finally took the court at the start of the scheduled night session and Baez led 6-4, 0-1 when a thunderstorm brought torrential rain, causing play to be suspended for the day.<\/p>\n<p>The match will be completed in an extended session Friday when fine weather is forecast. The winner will have to also play a semifinal on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUCKLAND, New Zealand &#8212; Top-seeded Ben Shelton was a set down to seventh-seeded Sebastian Baez when their quarterfinal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-414811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414811","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=414811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}