{"id":425621,"date":"2026-01-20T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425621\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:17:08","slug":"australian-open-live-huge-upset-as-novak-djokovic-fires-accusation-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425621\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open LIVE: Huge upset as Novak Djokovic fires accusation | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonay Kartal admitted that her level hadn\u2019t dropped so low in years after losing to Anna Kalinskaya in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>She blew an early break lead and then fell away in the second set <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/2159978\/Sonay-Kartal-Australian-Open-Anna-Kalinskaya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">as Kalinskaya won in straight sets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Kartal said: &#8220;Obviously, very disappointed, I think, for me, it was not my finest at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even my base level was not really there today, which is something I kind of rely on, no matter what level I bring, I feel like my base level is always pretty consistent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kalinskaya needed over an hour to win the first set, but then ran away with the second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think my level got even worse, to be honest with you, I think that&#8217;s where I lost my base level,&#8221; added Kartal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just not really fun on the court in that second set. So yeah, I think maybe she did raise her level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I think, ultimately, my level dipped to a level that hasn&#8217;t been that low for years, probably.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sonay Kartal admitted that her level hadn\u2019t dropped so low in years after losing to Anna Kalinskaya in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[4909,64,63,6571,223514,218137,962,21345,754,3592,85,747,68384,750,52040],"class_list":["post-425621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-open","tag-australian-open-live","tag-australian-open-news","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-live","tag-tennis-news","tag-tennis-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425621","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=425621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}