{"id":478359,"date":"2026-02-13T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478359\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:58:08","slug":"jack-pinnington-jones-britons-dallas-open-run-ended-by-marin-cilic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478359\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Pinnington Jones: Briton&#8217;s Dallas Open run ended by Marin Cilic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Briton Jack Pinnington Jones had his dream run at the Dallas Open ended by veteran Marin Cilic in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old progressed through two rounds of qualifying to make the tournament&#8217;s main draw, before upsetting Italy&#8217;s world number 20 Flavio Cobolli and 68th-ranked American Eliot Spizzirri <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cly8v5dye29o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to reach the last eight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, contesting the first ATP Tour quarter-final of his career, Pinnington Jones was beaten by 2014 US Open champion Cilic 6-1 6-4 in just 78 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former world number three, 37, will meet the winner of the all-American match between top seed Taylor Fritz and Sebastian Korda for a place in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the Qatar Open, Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko followed up her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/ce940gd13xxo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shock win over Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina<\/a> by defeating former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko to reach the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 19-year-old prevailed 6-3 6-2 to set up a title decider against Karolina Muchova, after the Czech 14th seed came from behind to defeat Maria Sakkari 3-6 6-4 6-1 &#8211; a day after the Greek player knocked out top seed Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Briton Jack Pinnington Jones had his dream run at the Dallas Open ended by veteran Marin Cilic in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-478359","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\/478359","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=478359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}