{"id":442292,"date":"2026-01-28T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442292\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:58:08","slug":"mixed-results-for-kiwi-tennis-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442292\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed results for Kiwi tennis players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/382be2_e223f62c3d224e01a621fabe4fe49a89~mv2.jpg\" alt=\"James Watt (left) and Finn Reynolds have won their first round match at the San Diego Challenger PHOTO: NZSW\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%;max-width:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.nzsportswire.com\/post\/mixed-results-for-kiwi-tennis-players\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/382be2_e223f62c3d224e01a621fabe4fe49a89~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_1200,h_676,al_c,q_85\/382be2_e223f62c3d224e01a621fabe4fe49a89~mv2.jpg\" draggable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>James Watt (left) and Finn Reynolds have won their first round match at the San Diego Challenger PHOTO: NZSW<\/p>\n<p class=\"DFnp0 WloJR nsGWt _6qLM3\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-eyuiz500\">The New Zealand men&#8217;s doubles pairing of Finn Reynolds and James Watt have progressed to the quarterfinals at the Better Buzz Coffee San Diego Open ATP Challenger tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DFnp0 WloJR nsGWt _6qLM3\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-euv037803\">Seeded second in San Diego Reynolds and Watt beat Jody Maginley (Antigua) and American Pranav Kumar 6-3, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DFnp0 WloJR nsGWt _6qLM3\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-wtied11434\">The New Zealand duo won 79 percent of their service points and were generally efficent in most areas of the match. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DFnp0 WloJR nsGWt _6qLM3\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-acw8r10249\">The Kiwis were just a couple of places out of making the main draw at the Australian Open and travelled to California to compete prior to the Davis Cup against Bosnia &amp; Herzgovinia in two weeks in Whangarei. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DFnp0 WloJR nsGWt _6qLM3\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-mp0dt9214\">Meanwhile Lulu Sun played in the Manilla WTA 125k tournament in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DFnp0 WloJR nsGWt _6qLM3\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-fam419660\">In just her second match of the year due to injury Sun lost to China&#8217;s Lin Zhu 7-5 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Watt (left) and Finn Reynolds have won their first round match at the San Diego Challenger PHOTO:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-442292","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\/442292","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=442292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}