{"id":468301,"date":"2026-02-09T10:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468301\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:17:18","slug":"syrias-tennis-team-defeats-irish-hosts-in-davis-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/468301\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria\u2019s tennis team defeats Irish hosts in Davis Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin, Feb. 9 (SANA) Syria\u2019s national <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/sport\/2267632\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2267632\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tennis team<\/a> secured a 3\u20131 victory over host Ireland in their tie held as part of the Davis Cup World Group II qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>In the opening singles rubber, Syria\u2019s Hazem Al-Nu defeated Ireland\u2019s Michael O\u2019Gorman in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>The doubles rubber opened in favor of the Irish side, which took the first set 6\u20131. Syria responded to win the second set 6\u20133 before sealing the match with a 7\u20136 victory in the deciding set.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth singles rubber, Syria\u2019s Taym Al-Athma delivered a strong performance to defeat his Irish opponent 6\u20131, 6\u20133.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian squad included Hazem Al-Nu, Taym Al-Athma, Amer Naow, Yacoub Makzoume and Rabee Saleem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin, Feb. 9 (SANA) Syria\u2019s national tennis team secured a 3\u20131 victory over host Ireland in their tie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-468301","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\/468301","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=468301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}