{"id":426873,"date":"2026-01-21T03:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426873\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T03:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:35:08","slug":"storm-hunter-vs-hailey-baptiste-scores-talia-gibson-loses-to-diana-schnaider-daria-kasatkina-fumes-over-court-drama-before-shock-loss-carlos-alcaraz-vs-yannick-hanfmann-storm-hunter-vs-hailey-bapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/426873\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Hunter vs Hailey Baptiste scores; Talia Gibson loses to Diana Schnaider; Daria Kasatkina fumes over court drama before shock loss; Carlos Alcaraz vs Yannick Hanfmann; Storm Hunter vs Hailey Baptiste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The enigmatic Daniil Medvedev is no stranger to long, and controversial, matches at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>We can buckle in for another rollercoaster ride after the 11th seeded Russian star lost the opening set 7-6 (11-9) to France&#8217;s Quentin Halys.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev has now ducked away on John Cain Arena to take a lengthy bathroom break.<\/p>\n<p>And commentator John Fitzgerald is not happy as fans twiddle their thumbs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has driven me nuts for the last half a dozen years,&#8221; Fitzgerald said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just one set. A tough set, yes, over an hour &#8211; but I just feel, best of five, take one break at the end of the third set.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unless there&#8217;s something desperate, but not just taking eight minutes out of the schedule. No-one else seems to talk about it. It just boggles my mind&#8230; don&#8217;t give them a break &#8211; give me a break.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The enigmatic Daniil Medvedev is no stranger to long, and controversial, matches at the Australian Open. We can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-426873","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\/426873","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=426873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}