{"id":522127,"date":"2026-03-06T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522127\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:32:08","slug":"indian-wells-sonay-kartal-and-jacob-fearnley-progress-to-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522127\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Wells: Sonay Kartal and Jacob Fearnley progress to second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was an eighth consecutive singles loss for seven-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one Venus Williams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Williams, 45, has not won since she became the second oldest woman to win a WTA Tour-level singles match by beating Peyton Stearns at the Washington Open last July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Making her 10th appearance at Indian Wells, and first since 2024, the 554th-ranked Williams was beaten 6-3 6-7 (4-7) 6-1 by French world number 111 Diane Parry, who will play American 15th seed Madison Keys in the second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams, who has now experienced opening-round exits in her last five tournaments, felt the windy conditions in California played a part in the defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Today is not the kind of day that you want to assess. The conditions were impossible,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Also, in my match in Austin the conditions were impossible. I have played the last two matches in very difficult conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was an eighth consecutive singles loss for seven-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one Venus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-522127","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\/522127","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=522127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}